Tag Archive for 'Consumer demand'

Just three days after returning to Beijing from New York, I had to leave again, this time  to a series of conferences in Torino, Italy, so it is hard to do much writing for my blog, especially since I won’t spend my free time in the hotel when there is so damned much food out [...]

Since this is a very long post, it may make sense first to provide a quick summary of what I am going to argue.  As I have discussed often in earlier posts, pessimists are starting to worry about excessive debt levels in China, about which they are very right to worry, and many are predicting [...]

Another terrible day on the stock market saw the SSE Composite, led kicking and screaming by energy and financial companies, trade more or less straight down by 3.2% to close the day at 2203.  The brilliant autumn weather in Beijing (and the best week for air quality I have seen in seven years of living [...]