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Professor Roy Smith discusses Chinese companies' increased investments in the US

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Excerpt from CBS News -- "Worries about Chinese companies are similar to the concerns about Japanese companies during the 1980s when they went on a bigger acquisition spree, according to Roy Smith, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker who's now a professor at New York University. 'Most of the Japanese deals ended up being overpriced, and the companies had to go through difficulties, but (they had) no adverse effect on the U.S. economy or labor force,' he wrote in an email. 'In a political year, this may appear to be an issue, but, like so many other things said, it isn't."

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