Dr. Jim Walker provides a free market perspective on the Asian markets. Many commodity bulls believe Asian growth is a one-way street and that they can more than make up for an economic depression in the western world. But, a command economy in China has 64 million empty apartments where few people can afford to live. Could that lead to a depression in China or is the Chinese economy so large as Jim Rogers suggests, that 64-million empty apartments are unimportant? What about the longer term prospects for India, the world’s second most populous country? Is China or India a better place to in
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