Tags: Trade war

Who will pay for China’s bad loans?

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Since this is a very long post, it may make sense first to provide a quick summary of what I am going to argue.  As I have discussed often in earlier posts, pessimists are starting to worry about excessive debt levels in China, about which they are very right to worry, and many are predicting …

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Would a trade war help solve the problem of excess capacity?

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On Friday Chinese stock markets capped one of the best weeks in an awfully long time, with the SSE Composite closing at 1986, up 3.1% for the day and 13.7% for the week. Although a lot of local analysts have been saying that the rally is long overdue and represents confirmation that we have bottomed …

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