Juggling Dynamite

“I wouldn’t trust any company’s accounts in China,” says James Chanos, Kynikos Associates president & founder, explaining why he is short Chinese companies, despite GDP growth. Here is a direct link.

Gary Shilling, president of A. Gary Shilling & Co., talks about the prospects for global deflation and the Chinese economy. Here is a direct link.

Are you more honest than a banker? Under what circumstances would you lie, or cheat, and what effect does your deception have on society at large? Dan Ariely, one of the world’s leading voices on human motivation and behaviour is the latest big thinker to get the RSA Animate treatment. Taken from a lecture given at the RSA in July 2012. The RSA is a 258 year-old charity devoted to driving social progress and spreading world-changing ideas. See more information about the RSA here. Here is a direct link.