China Bubble News Today

Fresh guidelines are aimed at improving the financial conditions of local-level governments, and analysts say the directive highlights just how urgent it is to alleviate financial distress across China.

CPI was up 9.1% y-o-y in June, the highest rate, as we all know by now, since 1981. Read more.

The late-nineties U.S. “tech” Bubble was financed, at the margin, by high-yield debt (telecom, in particular), speculative hedge fund levered finance, and GSE liquidity. Read more.

The week arguably offered some clarity on key facets of today's murky financial, economic and policy backdrops.

The bay jikeijing olympics its so fantastic, theyre going to crush the united states. their airports, their roads, theyre trains -- and you heard it. and then the more you read the more they were saying yes, china is great. but so much of this is just savings for the government invested in their economy without an underlying market. and so weve been warning around this table about a china bubble for about three or four years, is there one now? if so what is it? is it a housing bubble? is it a ma...

>> why is that snt bubble weve been talking about for years? >> the housing bubble. people have been mocking me saying there is a china bubble. im just curious. >> richard haas is on the next segment, were going to go through all this. >> very good. so you know willie we have long said that trump was the abraham lincoln of our time. >> yes. >> some recent statements that he has made has perhaps challenged that assertion. okay. they have challenged that assertion. but as you look up on the chisel...

China, which weve been talking about. weve been talking for a year now about the china bubble. youve got the slowing of economic growth. you obviously have an increase in dissent. youve got political unrest, corruption. and you look at the amount of money the chinese have to spend on security, keeping their people from rising up and another tiananmen square. this doesnt look, as david said, like that vibrant success story that the united states has to be fearing its going to overtake us in five ...

The details, they dont deal with the potential problems with italy and spain and other countries. will that stabilize enough for the markets to be more secure here? i mean, do you have to answer the long-term problem in the euro zone? or can you just deal with this immediate problem of greece? >> i think you have to do two things simultaneously. you have to say in a single currency, we all stand together and well do what it takes to protect each other. the federal reserve would do that for any m...

What makes a true gentleman is someone -- a parent who is willing to teach their son that its great to be tough but perhaps even better to be tender. >> polished shoes and punctuality. and those are fairly important. so if you look today, my shoes -- >> fine shine. >> theres a fine shine. they are polished every day by myself in a fetishistic manner. >> men routinely open doors for women. every time wed stand at a table until the woman was seated. >> being a gentleman is a way of life. and its a...

World, but its caused the chinese to pull back and bring their economy down -- >> how is the uninflation trending? >> it has been trending up. and what theyve been doing is tightening credit in order to bring it back down. thats created other issues. there are issues in china. im not here to tell you chinas the only place we should invest the scarborough fortune. then weve come to unemployment where china, in fact, has labor shortages in areas where theyre looking for skill workers and wages ris...