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China: The Mother of All Bubbles
Seeking Alpha ^ | August 09, 2010 | James Quinn

Posted on 08/10/2010 3:13:33 PM PDT by arthurus

In the latest issue of The Casey Report, Bud Conrad does a fantastic job analyzing the truth about Asia. Japan is a ticking demographic time bomb. The Chinese government has created the mother of all bubbles and when it pops, it will be felt around the world. The China miracle is not really a miracle. It is a debt financed bubble. Sound familiar?

(Excerpt) Read more at seekingalpha.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bubble; china; pop
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1 posted on 08/10/2010 3:13:36 PM PDT by arthurus
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Will it be a perfect storm ?

Sheesh.

2 posted on 08/10/2010 3:15:40 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: arthurus

I guess we still better do what Jim Rogers and all the other Next Big Dealers tell us to do and invest in Asia, the emerging market.


3 posted on 08/10/2010 3:17:51 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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4 posted on 08/10/2010 3:19:16 PM PDT by blam
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You can’t kill off 60 million people in one generation, kill off a generation of women right after that, practice political corruption on every level, oppress over 1 billion people, and expect fun times in the sight of God.


5 posted on 08/10/2010 3:21:26 PM PDT by lurk
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The Chinese authorities have printed and instructed the banks to make loans for shopping malls, apartment buildings, office towers, and condo towers. Average citizens have bought as many as five condos.

When a government official, who can have you executed, tells you to lend, obedient bankers lend. The Chinese authorities can hide the truth for a period of time, but the bad debt caused by the Chinese stimulus and malinvested in office buildings, condos, malls, and cities will eventually lead to a monumental collapse in the Chinese real estate market. This will result in a stock market crash and a dramatic slowing in economic growth.
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I don’t know. When you have a government that is all powerful, you can ORDER people to move to the uninhabited cities and get to work.


6 posted on 08/10/2010 3:23:38 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: lurk

Yeah.


7 posted on 08/10/2010 3:23:38 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: blam

Wow.


8 posted on 08/10/2010 3:24:59 PM PDT by tial
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To: arthurus

Whole world about to financially implode, huh? =.=


9 posted on 08/10/2010 3:33:19 PM PDT by cranked
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To: mamelukesabre; All

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrLe77eBbGc


10 posted on 08/10/2010 3:42:23 PM PDT by CommieCutter (A Centrist Democrat is now defined as: between Socialism and Communism.)
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To: arthurus
Interesting. I had thought that the China phenomenon was largely based on exported manufactured goods, ala WalMart, which is reasonably sustainable given the World's still extant want. But if a major factor is internal construction, malls, housing, etc. as this article implies, then there are are indeed imminent serious ramifications, at least within China, and possibly without, through the pressure for occupation. Similar to the drumbeat for war heard now in the US to take the pressure off BO and crowd.

We repeat ourselves, and repeat, and repeat. The United States with internal resources could be the paradise of the World: Eliminate Illegals, develop internal energy - fossil, nuclear, renewable, plan sustainably, trade a little, not isolationist but just a little, and have a ball.

That is NOT the way some very, very, very, sinister globalist forces want it. Can you say CFR, Rockefeller, Soros, Goldman-Sachs, et. al? The United States fought and prevailed in WWII with 187 million residents, largely Christian.

Johnny Suntrade

11 posted on 08/10/2010 3:50:06 PM PDT by jnsun (The Left: the need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer.)
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Wonder what the supporters of Free Trade with Communist China are going to whine about when the bubble pops (which it will)

Probably more ruminations of “Smoot Hawley Caused The Great Depression” myth....or “The Joys of Out Sourcing”

Globalism is dead....and the Liberal Free Traders better wake up to it


12 posted on 08/10/2010 3:52:44 PM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (JD for Senate ..... jdforsenate.com. You either voting for JD, or voting for the Liberal...)
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That’s simply unhinged . . . do you pay attention to what you type?


13 posted on 08/10/2010 3:57:05 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: mamelukesabre
When you have a government that is all powerful, you can ORDER people to move to the uninhabited cities and get to work.

Well, how does that explain the downfall of the Soviet Union and Kampuchea?

14 posted on 08/10/2010 3:57:20 PM PDT by AndrewC
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That is NOT the way some very, very, very, sinister globalist forces want it. Can you say CFR, Rockefeller, Soros, Goldman-Sachs, et. al? The United States fought and prevailed in WWII with 187 million residents, largely Christian.


Free Traders are not the brightest people. Liberal Free Trade Globalism does not work...and it is time to rid the planet of such stupid economic ideas....if we do not...we will end up being run by socialists and communists

You cannot create a job in the United States of America by shipping American jobs to Communist China, India, or Drug Cartel Mexico.....that is an Economic Fact


15 posted on 08/10/2010 3:57:30 PM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (JD for Senate ..... jdforsenate.com. You either voting for JD, or voting for the Liberal...)
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To: 1rudeboy

That’s simply unhinged . . . do you pay attention to what you type?


Ahh...the Voice of Failure has returned. I think Obama has some USAID money heading your way


16 posted on 08/10/2010 3:59:37 PM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (JD for Senate ..... jdforsenate.com. You either voting for JD, or voting for the Liberal...)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

Economic liberty is a stupid idea. Governments should protect markets, like our government protected the housing market. Uh, wait a minute . . . .


17 posted on 08/10/2010 4:00:19 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: AndrewC

what the heck are you talking about? When did moscow ever order people to an uninhabited city?


18 posted on 08/10/2010 4:00:39 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

I’m not the one looking for handouts. Look in the mirror.


19 posted on 08/10/2010 4:01:32 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: arthurus

There are enough vacant apartments in China to house something like 2/3 of the U.S. population.


20 posted on 08/10/2010 4:07:39 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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