Chinese Kids Want to Become Investment Bankers?! – China Business

siliconhutong.typepad.com — David Wolf, China marketing consultant and gatekeeper at Silicon Hutong blog, follows up on a Didi Tatlow NYT story about Chinese youth looking to the banking sector for future careers instead of boring scientific study. But, contends Wolf, this could portend more of the same doom and gloom which has plagued more developed economies.

So does China want to rumble down the same fruitless path as the US, for instance, and build its future on a flimsy basis of financial instruments which are -- at best -- obsolete? Read on inside...

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Chinese Kids Want to Become Investment Bankers?!

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