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| Employment wanted: would-be workers set out signs describing their skills at a Chengdu jobs fair. Factories across China have shut in their thousands, prompting calls for domestic stimulus funds |
The flotation of Blackstone in June 2007 has already gone down as one of the symbolic events in America’s financial bubble – the end-of-an-era deal when some of Wall Street’s savviest insiders decided to cash out.
