According to Zhang Shugang, a well-known economist in China, China's consumption grew 15.5% over past year. On the surface, this is exactly what we needed to re-balance China's highly skewed, investment-driven economy
Not yet...
Further look at the data: 69% of the total consumption came from either housing or automobile purchase, with housing expenditure accounting for 55%. This is out of whack. Think about how many people were actually buying for speculation only...animal spirits and bubble show up everywhere.
This is a bubble that will eventually go bust.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Something about China's consumption
2010-02-10T02:11:00-05:00
Paul Deng
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