Smart Money
Some helpful investing resources:
This investing blog hints at the power of the unmediated message, whipping out commentary on breaking economic data. While news agencies fuss over their angle, and the banks parse data to come to an accepted house consensus, Zero Hedge will just put it out there. It also samples liberally from other web-based media, offering links to news reports, commentaries and raw data. The ideas and sources are often unconventional but are at the least provocative and may present a solid trading idea that is far ahead of traditional purveyors of such views.
This site breaks down the basics of personal finance. As its name suggests, it is designed to simplify and clarify what are often anxious issues of planning for retirement.
GoSimplifi.com uses clever, intuitive interactive graphs into which users can input basic data to see, for example, how much free income they have to spend on non-essentials each month.
'64 million empty apartments in China'
This is not a site, as such, but a search term for an internet-video download. The video is of a documentary produced by Australia's SBS network for a show called Dateline. The show goes on the ground in the mainland showing example after example of empty showcase cities, which it suggests contains 64 million vacant apartments.
The message is that the mainland is on the cusp of a huge property bubble. The larger message is about the dangerous dislocations that can build up in a command economy such as the mainland's. The show offers a reality check for anyone investing to get more exposure to China's economic miracle.
