On China, Shadow banking. steel and more

Posted: March 12, 2014 in Uncategorized
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Well, a lot is going on in China.

In a short summary the Chinese Government is one of the smartest on earth, but the challenge they have to deal with are also the biggest in the world.

How it will end will be more or less a toss of a coin.

– The failure of the Solar Company (a shadow banking product) it clearly states that the PCC has decided to really start fighting the shadow banking issues. One company will not start a chain reaction – but there are a lot around with products with end of life cycle in April/May.

A beautiful and simple article about shadow banking, a classic Ponzi scheme

http://qz.com/175590/five-charts-to-explain-chinas-shadow-banking-system-and-how-it-could-make-a-slowdown-even-uglier/

– The slump in iron ore (and metals in general) is a by-product of new China starting to address overcapacity in steel (attention Australia) and pollution. Again Steel Industry has a lot of shadow lending in it.

So now we just wait the media to start spreading the panic 

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