Tiger Economy

A fast-growing economy.

Originally, it was named for the four beast-growers under the powerful Asian symbol of the tiger. And yes, ironically perhaps, two of them have been more or less subsumed by China as Taiwan and Hong Kong are now. The other two, South Korea and Singapore, are growing nicely.

Lots of tiger economies grew up all over the world: Dubai, Istanbul, Rio, and others who are getting their financial acts together super-fast.

And yes, before they smoked our heinies in almost everything business, China used to be one of these.