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Global Manufacturing Growth Shudders Towards A Halt

by Edward Hugh, Euro Watch This months manufacturing PMI data only confirm what several months of prior surveys (and now the latest US jobs report) have been telling us, namely that growth in the developed economies is getting scarcer and … Continue reading

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China and the Global Crisis

by Michael Pettis This posting is from the January 30 issue of my newsletter, and so ignores recent events in Chongqing, but of course those events make my discussion of the political debate entry all the more relevant, I think. … Continue reading

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Plaza II is the Wrong Approach for Global Rebalancing

Currency revaluation is not the primary answer to China’s trade imbalances. Structural factors are more important. Continue reading

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