Chinese property crash keeps on keeping on

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The crazed Chinese stock rebound of the past few days is typical not of recovery but bear markets. Moreover, although property equity has surged, junk dollar debt hasn’t moved at all:

Here’s the buzz:

Chinese property developers rallied for a second straight day on Thursday, with many homebuilders skyrocketing by more than 40%, after the country’s top regulators threw the struggling real estate sector a lifeline amid growing pressures at home and abroad.

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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.