Irrational numbers
13 July 2012

That figure doesn’t sound so bad; it’s what most economists expected. But industrial data and mounting tales of job culls and bankruptcies tell a more sober story. It looks worryingly like China is being propped up by bank lending, and a risky revival of the property sector.
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