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China’s $6.6 Trillion Toxic Loan Problem
“As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot,” once remarked Ray Kroc, mastermind of the McDonald’s franchise empire. At the moment, no truer words can be spoken for China’s ripe economy. The … Continue reading
The Muted Delight of the Forthcoming Recession
One week down. Fifty-one more to go. No doubt, this has been a wild start to the New Year. We expect many more to follow. For example, on Monday, Chinese investors overloaded the Shanghai Stock Exchange. An abundance of traders … Continue reading
Fighting the Suck in China
Old records are being broken. New records are being notched. On Monday, for example, the People’s Bank of China reported a record liquidation of foreign exchange reserves occurred in November. Specifically, China’s foreign exchange reserves declined $87.22 billion in November … Continue reading
Economic Profanity
Significant changes are taking place. As we noted several weeks ago, for the first time in 27 years wealth is not flowing into emerging markets. It’s flowing out. The global economy everyone has known since the late 1980s is being … Continue reading
