Many internationally renowned brands have Chinese manufacturers, and this shows that China is fully capable of creating a world-class commodity.

许多国际知名品牌都有在华制造商，这说明中国完全有能力制造出世界一流的商品。

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It isn't just a reflection of the current economic slowdown and rise in commodity prices: Middle-class incomes have been stagnant for several years.

不能将这一古脑都归咎于当前经济的不景气以及大宗商品价格的上涨：要知道美国中产阶级的收入已经原地踏步好几年了。

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Or at least not the first one, which he believes occurred in the 1940s and '50s, courtesy of his grandmother and the emergence of the car as a middle-class commodity.

第一次出现在四十和五十年代，起因与他的祖母以及中产阶级开始拥有汽车有关。

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Rising commodity prices have allowed a class of super-rich, from Middle Eastern potentates to Russian oligarchs, to splash out on converting full-sized airliners into private jets.

ECONOMIST: Corporate jets

But some economists argue that Brazil is the beneficiary of a structural shift, in which the industrialisation of Asia and the rise of a new middle class in the developing world will keep commodity prices high.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

Once again, just as the consensus was to be in the commodity asset class it backfired for the moment as the contagion of a globe slowdown that cannot predicted has taken its victims, the speculative interest that saw copper, gold, silver, oil as sure things.

FORBES: Silver Down 30%, Gold Off 11% As Panic Hits Precious Metals