Chinese inflation to crash in due course

David Llewellyn-Smith

Friday, 15 October 2021

Chinese inflation was out yesterday and it is a laugh a minute. The CPI is cratered at 0.7% as food prices sag:

However, that is not where the action is. It’s producer inflation that delivers the laughs, at 10.7%:

And have a look at what is running:

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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.