This is a useful read from Reuters on the difficulties China is facing, pushing on a string.
- China is awash with money and its growth is slowing.
- To avert a prolonged stagnation, President Xi Jinping’s administration may need to spend its way out of the problem.
- Yet this and other classic remedies to such a malaise may not be effective in Beijing’s “socialist market economy”.
- China’s condition may be seen as what economists call a liquidity trap, though the term means different things to different people.
Regardless of your view on China, this is a good learning piece. Recommended.
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