China-US scenarios

China-US scenarios: its obvious really but still a helpful 2*2 summary also of the varying scenarios that folks are laying out. @FitchRatings by way of @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/G0mipstEe3 — Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) December 7, 2018

Global “big four” stuck – US (PMI) 55.3 3M low, EU at 27M low, Japan now 15M low, and China barely > 50

https://twitter.com/MacroTechnicals/status/1069673203512041472 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1069738317221163008 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1069736930886197248 What type of landing should US economy expect? Soft or Hard? pic.twitter.com/ASXN5UxBlD — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 3, 2018 ISM prices paid have been a pretty good lead this cycle on ISM. pic.twitter.com/MOTyEEbXbZ — Teddy Vallee (@TeddyVallee) December …

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CHINA’S INTERNET ARMY

This post begins with a discussion of the October 2018 U.S. indictment of nine Chinese citizens on charges of “Internet-based espionage.” The nine worked with an Internet hacking operation based in China’s Jiansu Province. The group targeted “technical data on …

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China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score has already banned 11 million flights and 4 million train trips by “undesirables.”

via zerohedge: The “Beijing Further Optimization of the Business Environment Action Plan (2018-2020)” has just been distributed to all district committees, district governments, municipal party committees, local government ministries and commissions bureaus, various head offices, multiple people’s organizations, colleges, and universities. The new report …

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