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For the past decade, China has driven global demand.

While the West fretted over fiscal deficits and, in turn, outsourced economic policy to its central banks, the People’s Republic has repeatedly turned on the fiscal taps, fueling a bull market in commodities, consumer goods and overpriced perishables.

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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.