Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. On October 29, the nineteenth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party concluded its fifth plenum, a four-day meeting devoted primarily...
Mark A. DeWeaver
Check out www.markdeweaver.com for more commentary by this author. Mark A. DeWeaver, PhD, CFA, is a cofounder of the fund management company Ithaca Advisors, LLC, and the author of Animal Spirits with Chinese Characteristics: Investment Booms and Busts in the World's Emerging Economic Giant.
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