By Rocky Vega
11/19/09 Stockholm, Sweden – The Great Wall was built between the 5th and 16th century BC to protect China from attacks along the northern borders of its empire.
Now China’s wallet is performing a similar role in economic policy. Few tools help keep a slumping superpower and its sometimes needy requests at bay better than control over the purse strings.
Rocky Vega is a regular contributor to The Daily Reckoning. Previously, he was founding publisher of UrbanTurf and RFID Update, which he operated from Brazil, Chile, and Puerto Rico, and associate publisher of FierceFinance. He specialized in direct marketing at MBI, facilitated MIT Sloan School of Management programs, and has been featured on CBS. Vega graduated with honors from Harvard University, where he was on the board of Let’s Go Publications and directed business programs involving McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and Harvard Business School faculty. He is also enrolled at the Stockholm School of Economics.
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