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aquart

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1. "All economic statistics are best seen as a peculiarly boring form of science fiction"

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Dec 19, 2011, 03:31 PM

Dec 2011

I've always thought so.

China building empty city after empty city of luxury housing while workers remain desperate for affordable housing? That economy is going to detonate.

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China emerging as another danger spot in the world economy: Paul Krugman [View all] xchrom Dec 2011 OP

"All economic statistics are best seen as a peculiarly boring form of science fiction" aquart Dec 2011 #1

something fishy is going on internally there. xchrom Dec 2011 #2

Murky as a derivative. aquart Dec 2011 #3

The video of the empty cities is eerie. CrispyQ Dec 2011 #4