As I recall, the China 25 are the 25 largest traded Chinese stocks that are allowed foreign investment (in this case, us).Simply put, you would buy FXI if you think the market is going up, FXP if you think down.FXI is the long play, FXP is an Ultra Short, which is to say it tries to double down on the index.

It's not speculation - it's a shortage of land (and thus housing) in an area that is desirable to live due to weather, culture, etc. with a highly skilled and well-paid workforce.

Little did I know my answer would be an ancient chinese secret:http://www.break.com/index/least-popular-martial-art.html

As a former teacher, I've seen how bad things have become in the past decade, and it isn't going to get better any time soon.What's worse is that popular culture is embracing the misuse of words and the media propagates it as well.Its the dumbing down of American Society, and it is happening in front of our very eyes.

I hope that you can contribute some none salesy type information about investing in internation markets in the appropriate forums her on Bigger Pockets.I am sure you will understand the culture and mantra of this board soon enough.

Anyone with a good knowledge of History (especially Cultural Anthropology) will be able to predict future patterns of human behavior based upon past human behavior.

And as a further side note, for a 3/1 sfr in Florida to be listed at 77,900, it's in an area that's a lot closer in culture to Ohio than you would ever think.Tim

Not far from here a young couple was murdered by some new chinese gang - we don't have much gang activity round here compared to the USA, but now it does seem they're everywhere :(

According to answers so far this seems to be falling in the "bad debt" category.We accept debt in our culture to the point of excess and most is really bad debt, but if you have a car loan, that's a depreciating asset.

They could pay the rent with money they earned selling phone calls to Europe and South America for half price.An additional plus for you: the opportunity to learn about different cultures as every immigrant in your city would be at your house a couple of times a week, calling home.