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Meet China's Biggest Oil Trader: At 39, He Generated $38 Billion In Revenue

Meet China's Biggest Oil Trader: At 39, He Generated $38 Billion In Revenue

Ye Jianming isn’t a name that rings many bells... yet. But, according to SCMP, it will, considering what he’s achieved so far in a country where the state firms take all. As Fortune recently wrote, when it ranked Ye #2 in its "40 Under 40" list, he runs a $42-billion-a-year oil business in China, (No. 229 on the Fortune Global 500), yet few in China know anything about the mysterious tycoon or the firm he created, CEFC.

Which Country Punishes Productive People The Most?

Which Country Punishes Productive People The Most?

Submitted by Daniel Mitchell via The Foundation for Economic Education,

Back in 2014, I shared some data from the Tax Foundation that measured the degree to which various developed nations punished high-income earners.

This measure of relative “progressivity” focused on personal income taxes. And that’s important because that levy often is the most onerous for highly productive residents of a nation.

Data Fraud At Chinese Province Suggests Local GDP Numbers As Much As 20% "Overcooked"

One month ago, in delightful, if anticipated, confirmation that much if not all of China's data has been cooked and fabricated as so many skeptics suspected, we reported that according to the People's Daily, the rust-belt province of Liaoning had admitted to fabricating fiscal numbers from 2011 to 2014.

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