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Infrastructure: It’s Not About Beijing in ’08

BY CHIP HANLON | DECEMBER 21, 2007 | 10:38 AM | 2 COMMENTS

Stop it!  Please just stop. I saw it yet again yesterday: another commentator talked about how China's economy should keep chugging along through the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, particularly its appetite for commodities due to its infrastructure needs ahead of that event.  Sometimes I hear it said that the trend might last through 2010 and the World Expo in Shanghai for similar reasons. Please.

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