Category Archives: China

Wolf Richter: Foreign “Smart Money” Frets about Turmoil at Home, Flees, Plows into US Housing Bubble 2, Thinks it’s a “Safe Haven”

Lambert: Just what we need; more 1%-ers. And if turmoil in emerging markets keeps up, we’ll have more of ’em, as conditions “at home” sharpen. By Wolf Richter, a San Francisco based executive, entrepreneur, start up specialist, and author, with extensive international work experience. Originally published at Wolf Street. Wealthy, very nervous foreigners yanking their money […]

Wolf Richter: It Starts – Broad Retaliation Against China in Currency War

Struggling economies that compete with China are going to protect their exports against Chinese encroachment via currency depreciation.

Power 8, Sponsor of Everton FC, Fulham FC and RCD Espanyol, is a $250Mn Pyramid Fraud

Power 8, Sponsor of Everton FC, Fulham FC and RCD Espanyol, is a $250Mn Pyramid Fraud.

Turbulence and Stability in Financial Markets: China in Recent Times

China is a case study of how liberalization of financial markets has never contributed to stability.

Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

Does it make sense to look at the Saudi strategy within the oil industry alone, or do analysts need to start factoring in deflationary economic policies around the world?

Wolf Richter: China’s Hard Landing Suddenly Gets a Lot Rougher

Despite the 7% GDP growth published and hotly defended by the Chinese government, it is increasingly clear that the country is beset with a host of immense problems, after a debt-fueled binge of overbuilding and over-stimulating.

China’s Stock Market Collapse

Those who are looking only at Greece and the crazy behaviour of the European Union may well be looking in the wrong direction to identify the next big crisis as it comes.

China’s Stock Market Falling Off a Cliff: Why, and Why Care?

What explains the turmoil in Chinese stock markets, and what does it mean for the rest of the world?

Chovanec: China Destroyed Its Stock Market

China apparently did not get the memo about not letting stock market leverage get out of hand.

Perry Mehrling: China’s Rocky Road Ahead, Financial Liberalization versus Financial Stability

Will China’s renminbi transition smoothly to reserve currency status, or not? And should it?

Chinese Stock Market Rout Continues; Trading Halted in Over Half of Listed Stocks

The Chinese stock market meltdown is accelerating despite government intervention and is blowing back to commodities markets, including copper and oil, which are trading down based on concern that the stock market plunge is a harbinger of even more economic weakness. And the decline may represent the beginning of the end of the faith in China’s command and control economy.

Oil Faces Steep Downside Risk From China’s Stock Market

A drop in demand from China was one of the big causes of the oil price plunge in 2008. How do stock prices play into current demand weakness?

Michael Klare: Russia v. China – Washington Debates Who Should Be Public Enemy Number One

Yves here. It’s mind-boggling to think that the US is confronting China as a hostile power. We are deeply integrated with them economically, so it’s hard to see how this makes any sense. And it reveals classic American short-sightedness, since by letting them become our preferred vendor (as in exporting US jobs to them), we […]

Groundhog Day for NZ FSPs: Bryan Cook of Asia Finance Corporation is a Crook, but Does NZ’s FMA Care?

Why is it Groundhog Day? Back in 2011, I wrote a seriously messy blog post about dodgy New Zealand FSPs (Financial Services Providers), their dodgy web sites and people and addresses, and the evidently nonexistent oversight of all of this by the NZ Ministry of Economic Development and the NZ Companies Office. To my surprise, […]

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Category Archives: China

Wolf Richter: Foreign “Smart Money” Frets about Turmoil at Home, Flees, Plows into US Housing Bubble 2, Thinks it’s a “Safe Haven”

Wolf Richter: It Starts – Broad Retaliation Against China in Currency War

Power 8, Sponsor of Everton FC, Fulham FC and RCD Espanyol, is a $250Mn Pyramid Fraud

Turbulence and Stability in Financial Markets: China in Recent Times

Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

Wolf Richter: China’s Hard Landing Suddenly Gets a Lot Rougher

China’s Stock Market Collapse

China’s Stock Market Falling Off a Cliff: Why, and Why Care?

Chovanec: China Destroyed Its Stock Market

Perry Mehrling: China’s Rocky Road Ahead, Financial Liberalization versus Financial Stability

Chinese Stock Market Rout Continues; Trading Halted in Over Half of Listed Stocks

Oil Faces Steep Downside Risk From China’s Stock Market

Michael Klare: Russia v. China – Washington Debates Who Should Be Public Enemy Number One

Groundhog Day for NZ FSPs: Bryan Cook of Asia Finance Corporation is a Crook, but Does NZ’s FMA Care?

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