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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

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To: russwinter who wrote (25605)3/24/2005 3:31:26 AM
From: croesus1111  Read Replies (1) of 116555
 
<actual outcome of a Train Wreck based China slowdown, is a fracturing of China's money losing export based economy. When these enterprises fail, it will disrupt the global supply chain.>

I don't know, you have to remember that China is to some extent still a command and control economy, and the leadership fears discontent among the workers above all else. The leadership will not easily allow the state-owned businesses, and other marginal enterprises to just shut down. To the extent that they are able to, they will subsidize to prevent these enterprises from going under. They will use some or all of their forex resources to do it. What you are talking about would require a catastrophic recession. What evidence do you have of that magnitude of a slowdown being imminent? After all, Japanese banks have been essentially insolvent for fifteen years or more, and their government has saved them all this time...
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