SILK ROAD BLUES: China’s Global Building Spree Runs Into Trouble in Pakistan. “To fund a 70-nation infrastructure initiative, Beijing has been extending loans in opaque deals often contingent on using Chinese contractors.”

via WSJ: Financed and built by Chinese state-run companies, the soon-to-be-finished overhead railway through Lahore is among the first projects in China’s $62 billion plan for Pakistan. Beijing hoped the $2 billion air-conditioned metro, sweeping past crumbling relics of Mughal …

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Maybe This Is Just The Start For China?

“We have seen strong indications that Beijing could be shifting from mere policy-easing measures to a new round of stimulus to avert a credit squeeze and economic growth slowdown,” https://buff.ly/2JCq4fs h/t @StockBoardAsset

China And US Drifting Apart

via Bespoke In an interview with CNBC today, President Trump’s top economic advisor Larry Kudlow highlighted the Administration’s growing frustration with China’s seeming lack of interest to reach any deal in the ongoing trade dispute.  As the US and China continue to …

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China Taking Action To Cool Housing Prices

by Adam Taggart Developments are underway in China that should dampen the housing market there: The practice of rectifying market order stems from a special action by seven ministries. On June 28, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and other …

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The next time you read that China needs a stimulus, remember… China is slowing down WITH a monster stimulus

China is slowing down WITH a monster stimulus Cartoon of the Day: Misplaced Fear #China $FXI #EmergingMarkets #GrowthSlowing $EEM https://app.hedgeye.com/insights/68864-cartoon-of-the-day-misplaced-fear … Emerging Market Currencies Are Not Suffering Due To Foreign Evil Forces… Evil Monetary Imbalances Built Year After Year, Rather. …

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Goods and services from China accounted for only around 2.7% of U.S. personal consumption expenditures in the last decade! Over 80% of US personal expenditures are made in USA products and services.

by realister http://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Made-in-…-.png “How can it only be 2.7% when almost everything in Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT ) is made in China?” Because Wal-Mart’s $260 billion in U.S. revenue isn’t exactly reflective of America’s $14.5 trillion economy. Wal-Mart might sell a …

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The China Slowdown

Summary via Alan Longbon China is undergoing a self imposed slowdown. The current account had declined and actually moved into deficit. Credit creation by banks and the government has been shutdown and effectively not added to the stock of money in …

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