http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/15/inve...-stock-market/
China's growth miracle is cracking. The country no longer seems to know what it's doing when it comes to the economy and, especially, financial markets.
The government basically told people to go out and buy stocks last spring -- just before the market peaked.
It spent a whopping $500 billion in the past year to prop up its currency, only to turn around and cut the value of the yuan.
China's Communist Party has taken extraordinary measures in an attempt to do what no one in the world has ever been able to do: stop market volatility. It's gone as far as halting the stock market for almost an entire day on January 7 to using government money to buy stocks.
Yet the Chinese stock market has continued to tank.
Now the main market in Shanghai is in bear territory, and it's dragging the rest of the world down too, including the U.S.
On top of that, Chinese CEOs and executives continue to "disappear" and no one trusts the government's economic statistics. China says it's still growing at close to 7%. Independent experts say the real figure is probably half that.
China's economic miracle appears to be hitting a Great Wall of Ignorance.
China's growth miracle is cracking. The country no longer seems to know what it's doing when it comes to the economy and, especially, financial markets.
The government basically told people to go out and buy stocks last spring -- just before the market peaked.
It spent a whopping $500 billion in the past year to prop up its currency, only to turn around and cut the value of the yuan.
China's Communist Party has taken extraordinary measures in an attempt to do what no one in the world has ever been able to do: stop market volatility. It's gone as far as halting the stock market for almost an entire day on January 7 to using government money to buy stocks.
Yet the Chinese stock market has continued to tank.
Now the main market in Shanghai is in bear territory, and it's dragging the rest of the world down too, including the U.S.
On top of that, Chinese CEOs and executives continue to "disappear" and no one trusts the government's economic statistics. China says it's still growing at close to 7%. Independent experts say the real figure is probably half that.
China's economic miracle appears to be hitting a Great Wall of Ignorance.
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