China’s pork shock deepens

Tuesday 10 September 2019

Not much inflation to worry about in China today, unless you’re a pig, with the CPI at 2.8%. But check out pork as disease sweeps

It is driving some pretty impressive month on month gains but will pass:

Industry is plunging into deflation as overcapacity returns, down -0.8%:

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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.