"China and Starbucks have a lot in common"

Denver Post Guest Commentary - Vitaliy N. Katsenelson

Vitaliy shows how tremendous economic growth rates can not be maintained indefinitely.

Just as Starbucks has started closing stores after years of tremendous growth, China's current rapid economic expansion will not last forever.

Irony alert:

Vitaliy notes that "China is a communist country. Though it is moving toward free-market capitalism, it is not there yet. "

And yet, with the impending coronation of Obama as President, the United States is moving in the other direction, away from free-market capitalism.