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It's possible to paint quite a rosie picture with the 200 million or so privileged class, that have managed to rise to the surface on the back of the slave-domes.
However, if you try some simple thing like visiting some factories or any of the other situations I have mentioned, with some cameras, - without an 'official guide' then you will see how far you get when trying to uncover the bigger picture!!
I know lots of people from China!! They are ones who have escaped not the privileged allowed out. That's where I get the information from!! I was also very close to the dealings Telstra did and was talking to people involved at the time, I was telling them to question why they paying billions, they ignored me and lost billions!! So I see it from the top down and bottom up.
I'm living it mate
Chinese economic data for April printed weaker than expected, adding to evidence of an accelerating slowdown and highlighting what some analysts said was the need for government action to stabilize the rate of decline.
China’s industrial output (still) rose 9.3% in April, while retail sales were (still) up 14.1% for the month, official data showed Friday.
A Dow Jones Newswires had tipped industrial production to rise 12.2%, while a Bloomberg News survey had forecast a 15.1% for retail sales.
Fixed-asset investment in urban areas rose 20.2% in the January-to-April period, shy of Bloomberg-survey expectations for 20.5% rise.
“Today’s data on April spending and output put another nail into hopes that China’s economy is bottoming out,” Capital Economic analysts said in a note following the data release.
IHS Global Insight analysts highlighted concern over the slowing rate of growth in industrial production, as the April gain in output was 2.6 percentage points below levels in March, marking the fastest slowdown since a 2.8-point drop in June 2010.
The last time China’s growth decelerated by such a rate, it sparked widespread market panic, they said.
“China’s economy is even weaker than thought, with industrial production growth back in single digits for the first time since the global financial crisis, and electricity production flat-lining,” the IHS Global analysts said, referring to addition data showing electrical output up just 0.7% year-on-year.
On a month-on-month annualized basis, industrial production growth in April was 4.3%. “Looking forward, what is to be watched is how fast the government can stabilize the deceleration,” IHS said.
there's some logic you dont see everyday: "accelerating slowdown" ....to what ? is there a stopping point? do the analysts who've gotten the latest numbers wrong tip what that stop level is going to be?
The number of articles in the Fin Review on the slow down of China seems to have jumped in the last few weeks.
I think looking backwards, we might say that BHP at 49.81 was the peak of the mining boom (Apr 2011).
I might need to have some sort of plan to make money shorting stocks. Going long looks so hard right now.
Maybe China is done.... cooked. I can't imagine a catastrophic fall, more like a steady prolonged decline.
I do know what you mean.
Next big bubble = energy technology?
Not sure about this. What if the Chinese are messing with the figures as part of their game plan? Let's face it, the world economies appear to be in the toilet while China "appears" to be slowing? So China is going down the tubes because they have nobody to buy their products? I think the Chinese internal consumption is getting close to 2/3rds of GDP, while still growing at around 8% (a dream in western economies). What if China is waiting to see how Euro pans out before appearing to be the saviour using its trade surplus to get everyone out of the crapper? Surely, "The Emperor does have clothes", while it appears the Democratic economies are naked with the exception of their fig leaf (Printing presses)The bottom line - even by the official figures it's about to get even uglier
Contrarian indicator ?The number of articles in the Fin Review on the slow down of China seems to have jumped in the last few weeks.
Don't worry though, the next big bubble is right around the corner.
CanOz
There was a china expert on TV the other week, an actual China manhe was saying nothing much will happen until the Chinese communist party change of leadership...then its all guns blazing into the second half of 2012.
For me it seems to be a simple (lol) case of believe the Chinese phenomenon will continue or don't....go long/go short, yin/yang.
:dunno: im thinking i should just keep buying the lows and what will be will be.
There has been a notion floating around for a couple of years that the next bubble will be "Carbon Credits"
I do know what you mean.
Next big bubble = energy technology?
"All of the investment in the mining boom to date is but a shadow of what’s about to come according to the latest update by the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics."
"The analysis identifies “advanced projects” worth a jaw-dropping $260.8 billion, as well as a second category of less-advanced projects worth $242.4 billion.
The total - the investment Australia would get if all the projects came to fruition - exceeds half a trillion Australian dollars, easily a new investment milestone.
By way of comparison the Bureau totals all of the resource and energy investment to date in both of the mining booms since the turn of the century. It amounts to $138.4 billion. (That’s an inflation-adjusted figure, the dollar figure is lower.)"
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