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Via the WSJ:

China is making yet another attempt to rein in its overleveraged financial system, threatening to hamper the economy at a time when credit growth is already decelerating.

Investors outside the country don’t seem to care, but they should. China probably isn’t going to create another global financial scare as it did in 2015 and at the start of 2016, but the effects will still ripple around the world.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.