Subsídios para as Oportunidades e Ameaças da nossa macro-economia

"Ms Choyleva said China drew a false conclusion from the global credit crisis that their top-down economy trumps the free market, failing to see that the events of 2008-2009 did equally great damage to them – though of a different kind. It closed the door on mercantilist export strategies that depend on cheap loans, a cheap currency, (Moi ici: Há empresários de PMEs que bendizem a falta de crédito. Clientes que tinham debandado para a China, estão a regressar por causa do credit crunch) and the willingness of the West to tolerate predatory trade.
China is trying to keep the game going as if nothing has changed, but cannot do so. It dares not raise rates fast enough to let air out of the bubble because this would expose the bad debts of the banking system. The regime is stymied.
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China may have hit the "Lewis turning point", named after the Nobel economist Arthur Lewis from St Lucia. It is the moment for each catch-up economy when the supply of cheap labour from the countryside dries up, leading to a surge in industrial wages." (Moi ici: E eu que pensava que na China era só escravatura... pelo menos a fazer fé na argumentação de tanta gente)
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Trechos destacados de "China's credit bubble on borrowed time as inflation bites"
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"China, once an abundant provider of low-cost workers, is heading for the so-called Lewis turning point, when surplus labor evaporates, pushing up wages, consumption and inflation, said Huang Yiping, former chief Asia economist at Citigroup Inc. The result may prompt manufacturers to switch to cheaper countries such as India and Vietnam."
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Trecho retirado de "China Reaches Lewis Turning Point as Labor Costs Rise"
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BTW, algures neste blogue há um link que relaciona construção de arranha-céus e bolhas imobiliárias ao longo dos últimos 120 anos.
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"China’s skyscraper boom buoys global industry"
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"Why This Building Proves That The Next Financial Crisis Will Be In Shanghai in 2013"
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"Skyscraper Index"