TAFT, CA – JULY 22: Oil rigs just south of town extract crude oil for Chevron at dawn on July 22, 2008 in Taft, California. Landlocked by California’s richest oil fields, the oil town of 6,700 residents, with a stagnant economy and little room to expand, has hatched an ambitious plan to annex vast swaths […]
Traders at work on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, 1986. (Photo by George Freston/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images “Chinese companies are trying to conquer new markets around the world, and American financiers are making money by helping them.” That’s how the Wall Street Journal Rory Jones reported it in a recent article on the front […]