[gaxman]

Wonder if this has anyhting to do with China bailing Italy out ...

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2011-09/16/content_13712056.htm

 

[aramchek]

"Number of millionaires grows in China" (2010)
http://digitaljournal.com/article/293790

"...China had the world's fastest growing group of millionaires last year, an elite club that rose 31 percent from 2008 to encompass 477,000 people..."

Offshore almost a generation's worth of jobs in skilled manufacturing, IT and engineering to China, and it's not surprise. We'll be living in huts and making clay pots in a couple generations.