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Dr Doom’s Mother-Of-All-Crises Looming
Dr Doom’s Mother-Of-All-Crises Looming We are yet to see whether it will be a hard landing or a soft landing by the end of 2023. Biden’s administration has shamelessly pumped thousands of billions of dollars into the state financial system for less than two years announcing even a brand new ‘New Deal’ and new financial […]
Are You Prepared for a Hard Landing?
Are You Prepared for a Hard Landing? The New Year brings both optimism and hope. A chance to start fresh. To turn over a new leaf. The sentiment is welcome. The outcome, however, can be a grave disappointment. If you recall, 2022 was supposed to be a year of redemption and prosperity. After the ugly […]
China Hard Landing Hits Electricity Consumption
China Hard Landing Hits Electricity Consumption Chairman of large power company slips, apparently. OK, we’ve heard the official story. China is transitioning from a manufacturing economy to a consumption-based economy. Consumers are king. They’re going to buy stuff. And that’s going to heat up the economy. Imports and exports have been plunging for months, but […]
China’s Hard Landing To Trigger Meltdown In India: “We Will See Another Crisis”
China’s Hard Landing To Trigger Meltdown In India: “We Will See Another Crisis” In late September, India “surprised” 51 out of 52 economists by cutting rates a larger than expected 50 bps. Despite RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan’s penchant for catching markets off guard and despite the fact that exports had fallen for eight consecutive months, […]
China’s Hard-Landing Has Arrived: Chinese Coal Company Fires 100,000
China’s Hard-Landing Has Arrived: Chinese Coal Company Fires 100,000 The global commodity collapse is finally starting to take its toll on what China truly cares about: the employment of the tens of millions of currently employed and soon to be unemployed workers. On Friday, in a move that would make even Hewlett-Packard’s Meg Whitman blush, Harbin-based Heilongjiang […]
China Entering Ugly Recession, Not Just a “Hard Landing?”
China Entering Ugly Recession, Not Just a “Hard Landing?” A “hard landing” would be tough for China. But it would still mean economic growth, if very slow growth by Chinese standards. At worst, it would mean stagnation. But now, evidence is piling up that the economy is actually shrinking. There is practically universal agreement outside official […]
China’s Hard Landing Suddenly Gets a Lot Rougher
China’s Hard Landing Suddenly Gets a Lot Rougher This has become a sign of the times: Foxconn, with 1.3 million employees the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, making gadgets for Apple and many others, and with mega-production facilities in China, inked a memorandum of understanding on Saturday under which it would invest $5 billion over the next five […]
The Unnerving Thing Global Automakers Just Said About China’s Economy
The Unnerving Thing Global Automakers Just Said About China’s Economy Global automakers, still intoxicated with their own optimism after years of white-hot growth that transformed China’s auto market from a backwater to the largest market in the world, have an increasingly chilling message. The auto industry is a huge force in driving economic growth in […]
China Momentum Indicator Plunges to “Hard Landing” Level
China Momentum Indicator Plunges to “Hard Landing” Level “But nothing is normal in China anymore.” Hard-landing gurus have been predicting an imminent end of the China bubble for years. A “hard landing” would be the optimistic scenario. The other scenario would be a crash-and-burn. But to their greatest frustration, there was no hard landing, or […]
Chinese Economic Outlook “Skewed Heavily To The Downside,” BNP Says
Chinese Economic Outlook “Skewed Heavily To The Downside,” BNP Says Over the past several months we’ve built on several narratives out of China certainly not the least of which is the idea that economic growth in the country is decelerating quickly at a time when accelerating capital outflows make devaluation an unpalatable (if inevitable) proposition. […]
Why The Record Drop In Chinese House Prices Suggests Beijing Is Already In A Recession
Why The Record Drop In Chinese House Prices Suggests Beijing Is Already In A Recession Another month, and another confirmation that China’s hard landing is if not here, then likely mere months away. Overnight, the NBS reported that in March, Chinese house prices dropped in 69 of 70 cities compared to a year ago. According […]
China’s “Illusion Of Prosperity” Exposed: Forget Ghost Cities, Meet Ghost Factories | Zero Hedge
China’s “Illusion Of Prosperity” Exposed: Forget Ghost Cities, Meet Ghost Factories | Zero Hedge. Having exposed the 20+1 charts of China’s demise previously, we move to Exhibit (a) in the “illusion of prosperity” that keeps the dream (looking) alive to the outside (mostly Western get-rich-quick fast-money) world – China’s Zombie Factories… “There are large numbers of […]
The Elephant Dragon In The Room: China’s Hard Landing, In 21 Charts | Zero Hedge
The Elephant Dragon In The Room: China’s Hard Landing, In 21 Charts | Zero Hedge. Back in September, before the crude crash started in earnest driven far more by the relentless Chinese – and global – economic slowdown than anything OPEC may or may not have done (and whose output, as a reminder, hasn’t changed in years and […]
