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TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says that rebuilding from natural disasters can alter the growth picture for a country.
Is it Katrina all over again? Or is it bigger? Much bigger? That's what I am thinking about this Chinese earthquake.
Katrina distorted the U.S.'s growth pattern for more than a full year. The raw materials, the effort, the work, the reconstruction affected businesses from small-scale retail to refining and infrastructure.
We don't really know how China works, although a lot of people tell us they do. To me, the Chinese are always a day away from revolution or civil war and the trick of the government is to stay one step ahead of the posse. (Chinese hands will...
$41.09 (05/14/08)
