In China, There's Priceless, and for Everything Else, There's Cash
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It may be the factory to the world, but China's consumers aren't exactly splashing out. And credit cards are not widely accepted
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China on Sunday took aim at price manipulators and hoarders of goods, as Beijing ramped up its campaign to rein in inflation which is running at its highest level in more than a decade.
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BEIJING -- When Wang Xiaoyu set out to buy some sleek Lincoln automobiles for the small company he owns, the problem was how to pay. No dealer in China takes personal checks. Credit card limits are too low. Car loans barely exist.
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OSLO, Norway - Arild Tofte and Kaare Heggdal know that recycling pays, but they weren't quite prepared for the jackpot that a scrapped cash machine contained.  It was still full of cash. Enough to buy a house and take a luxury vacation.
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TO Zeng Shaotang, a farmer from South China&#39;s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the medical bills he has to pay feels like a mountain on his shoulders.
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GUIYU, China  - Guiyu is a modern day gold rush  town. But instead of panning for gold in babbling streams,  workers shift through piles of broken old computer parts in  acrid smelling shacks, smelting down parts with crude equipment  to extract valuable metals like gold and copper.
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Higher costs in China could spell the end of an era of ultra-cheap goods.
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ULANHOT, China  - It is remote, virtually surrounded by desert, and its only claim to fame is as a fleeting player in the founding of Communist China -- but Ulanhot wants its slice of the multi-billion dollar "red tourism" pie.
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China&#39;s hike in interest rates was a double-edged sword for many investors and economists. At one level, it suggested that Chinese growth is
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Higher costs in China could spell the end of an era of ultra-cheap goods, as well as the beginning of Chinaâs rise from the lowest rungs of global manufacturing.
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Funds have a lot to offer, even for egotistical stock pickers.
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A little money and a lot of time can add up to tremendous wealth.
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One Fool unearths an overlooked Chinese stock.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao is in Africa bearing the usual gifts of money for soccer stadiums and interest-free loans. But he also has brought a new recognition of the downside of China's aggressive quest for the continent's resources.
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China is filthy and needs to spend lots of money to clean up. American companies could get that business.
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Eager for stable friends, China is making big loans for big projects, competing with the World Bank at its own game.
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It's a fact of life in China that just about anything comes in a little plastic bag. That's all about to change: In what all reports are calling a surprise move, the central government has banned some plastic bags and the free distribution of others.