The world economies sputtered forward through most of 2009 despite warnings of a total economic paralysis. Those who invested long in equities and commodities and short the US dollar were handsomely rewarded. But 2009 will …

Doomsayers point to the newly constructed Chinese city of Ordos as a sign China’s financial collapse.
But where did China get the money to construct a city for no one? The American Consumer, of course. From …