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Foreign Buying Plummets In Vancouver: Sales To Foreigners Crash 96%
Foreign Buying Plummets In Vancouver: Sales To Foreigners Crash 96% China’s favorite offshore money laundering hub is officially no longer accepting its money. According to data released by British Columbia’s Ministry of Finance on Thursday, foreign investors officially disappeared from Vancouver’s property market last month after the local government imposed a 15% surcharge to curb a […]
China Relies On Property Bubbles To Prop Up GDP
China Relies On Property Bubbles To Prop Up GDP Carl Mydans Sharecropper’s family in Mississippi County, Missouri 1936Lots of China again today. Most of it based on warnings, coming from the BIS, about the country’s financial shenanigans. I’m getting the feeling we have gotten so used to huge and often unprecedented numbers, viewed against the backdrop of […]
The Bank For International Settlements Warns That A Major Debt Meltdown In China Is Imminent
The Bank For International Settlements Warns That A Major Debt Meltdown In China Is Imminent The pinnacle of the global financial system is warning that conditions are right for a “full-blown banking crisis” in China. Since the last financial crisis, there has been a credit boom in China that is really unprecedented in world history. […]
For China’s Polluted Megacities, A Focus on Slashing Emissions
For China’s Polluted Megacities, A Focus on Slashing Emissions The booming industrial center of Shenzhen is a showcase for Chinese efforts to cut CO2 emissions and make the nation’s burgeoning cities more livable. But it remains to be seen whether China’s runaway industrial development can give way to a low-carbon future. Paulson Institute An energy-efficient building […]
Japan Stands Firm on Senkaku Islands in East China Sea
Japan Stands Firm on Senkaku Islands in East China Sea In recent years, relations between China and Japan have come under increasing strain amidst the escalation of a decades-old territorial dispute over eight uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. The islands of this contentious archipelago are known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan, and the […]
A Dire Warning – ‘Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet’
A Dire Warning – ‘Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet’ When Bruce Schneier writes a post titled, Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet, you better listen. Read his post below and share widely: Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces […]
China’s oil peak 45 years after the US peak
China’s oil peak 45 years after the US peak Fig 1: Oil crisis in China like in 2005? No. By order: Free roads for G20 in Hangzhou https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/31/china-hangzhou-propaganda-facelift-g20-summit Strategically published only days before the G20 summit the Wall Street Journal had an article on peak oil in China: China’s Decline in Oil Production Echoes Globally […]
China: Something Must Burst
CHINA: SOMETHING MUST BURST “I know from a common sense financial standpoint that something has to burst. When a country is losing billions and billions and billions of dollars a year and when other countries are making hundreds of billions of dollars, something is going to burst” That was businessman Trump on America’s trade deficit […]
“Tremendous Ripple Effects” – Retailers Demand Bailout After Hanjin Collapse Paralyzes Trade
“Tremendous Ripple Effects” – Retailers Demand Bailout After Hanjin Collapse Paralyzes Trade When we first reported about the imminent paralysis of an unknown number of global supply chains and a potential shock in worldwide trade as a result of the historic bankruptcy of Hanjing Shipping, one of the world’s largest container shipping companies which handles 8% of […]
Fear Spreads of a Housing Crash in Canada
Fear Spreads of a Housing Crash in Canada More Canadians sour on their Magnificent Housing Bubble. Canadians have been gung-ho about their magnificent housing bubble, feeding it with an endless willingness to pay every higher prices, even as regulators and international institutions issued warnings, as short sellers began circling, as subprime liar-loan scandals made their reappearance, and […]
Oilmageddon, Central Banks And Liquidity: The 3 “Feedback Loops” Keeping Citi Up At Night
Oilmageddon, Central Banks And Liquidity: The 3 “Feedback Loops” Keeping Citi Up At Night In recent months we have seen a dramatic spike in visualizations by sellside analysts, who appear to have finally grasped the reflexive nature of markets first noted so many years ago by none other than George Soros, which – with the […]
Deflation Is Blowing In On An Eastern Trade Wind
Deflation Is Blowing In On An Eastern Trade Wind Jack Delano “Lower Manhattan seen from the S.S. Coamo leaving New York.” 1941 Brexit is nowhere near the biggest challenge to western economies. And not just because it has devolved into a two-bit theater piece. Though we should not forget the value of that development: it lays bare […]
Chinese Bankruptcies Surge More Than 50% In Q1; Worse To Come
Chinese Bankruptcies Surge More Than 50% In Q1; Worse To Come Two months ago, when looking at the soaring number of bond issuance cancellations and postponements as calculated by BofA, we commented that it was only a matter of time before the long overdue tide of corporate defaults, held by for so many years by the Chinese […]
Peak Oil in Asia (part 1)
Peak Oil in Asia (part 1) According to data recently published in BP’s 2016 Statistical Review Asian oil production remained at around 8.3 mb/d for 4 years now. Fig 1: Asian oil production We see the dominance of China (52% of total). The peak for all other Asian countries together was already in 2000, 15 years ago, […]
‘Our views are either similar or coincide’: Putin on comprehensive strategic China-Russia alliance
‘Our views are either similar or coincide’: Putin on comprehensive strategic China-Russia alliance Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. © Sergey Guneev / Sputnik The level of mutual trust in Sino-Russian relations has created grounds for comprehensive partnership and strategic collaboration between the two nations in technical, economic, and political spheres, Russia’s President […]
