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Re:Chinese Billionaire Linked to Giant Aluminum Stockpile in... by czep on Friday September 09, 2016 @06:49PM (#12466581)
It's infuriating how these crooks are the ones who get to be rich, while people who play by the rules, work and live honestly, end up being in debt to these criminals.

Nice bit of reporting by WSJ. I'm sure they will also get blocked in China, just like when NYT reported on the massive wealth of Party officials.

In a few years when people ask "when did the war start?" We might be pointing to this very incident, and many others like it.

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Re:Chinese Billionaire Linked to Giant Aluminum Stockpile in... by joe_the_user on Friday September 09, 2016 @06:56PM (#12466611)
Which crooks shall we start with first? The Chinese crooks, the American crooks or perhaps crooks of a less powerful third nation?

IE, US brokerages have engaged in similar or even more baldly speculative dodges -

NYTimes: "Hundreds of millions of times a day, thirsty Americans open a can of soda, beer or juice. And every time they do it, they pay a fraction of a penny more because of a shrewd maneuver by Goldman Sachs and other financial players that ultimately costs consumers billions of dollars."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/business/a-shuffle-of-alum...

And whether any of this actually illegal is to-be-determined but we're dealing with the people who make the laws, fighting with other people who also make their laws, right?

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