Episode Details
Title | Richard Koo: China’s “Balance Sheet Recession” Has Already Started | (Jack’s Final Episode) |
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Date | 9/13/2024 |
Podcast | Forward Guidance ↗ |
Key Insights
Bearish:
- 🔻 $CHINA - China's economy is showing signs of a balance sheet recession, similar to Japan's experience 30 years ago. Despite low interest rates, there's low borrowing and debt repayment, indicating potential economic troubles.
- “Chinese statistics, especially for low funds data, not not coming out, quickly enough. So it's very difficult to determine what is actually happening. But we are now hearing that not only many people are not borrowing money or paying down debt even with this very low interest rates in China, which is exactly the same as what happened in in Japan 30 years earlier.” - Richard (16:00)
- “The bond rates are coming down to the 10 year Chinese government bond rate is down to, like, 2.1%. Now for developing country like China, which still has lots of investment opportunities, and they have lots of companies that are highly competitive on the export market. They should be borrowing and spending and expanding their capacities.” - Richard (16:00)
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