Lunatic on the Loose: In Trying to Kill Off the Record Trump Economy Fed Chair Jerome Powell May Totally Destroy the China Economy
by Joe Hoft
TheGatewayPundit.com
December 26, 2018
Jerome Powell of the Fed is like a mad-man trying to destroy the US economy.
His actions are devastating, irresponsible and insane!
He doesn’t realize that in doing this he may actually destroy China’s economy instead.
As we reported a month ago, over the past few decades, China opened its borders and corporations around the world fled to China due to its cheap labor costs. As a result, China’s economy exploded. From Falling Eagle, Rising Tigers —
“While the US is moving more and more towards a welfare state, China is moving more and more towards prosperity. “Since the launch of economic reform in 1978 more people (in China) have been made materially better off in a shorter span of time than ever before in human history.”
China’s rise out of poverty has been dramatic. For example, considering a consumption threshold of $1 a day using the 1993 Power Purchasing Parities (PPP), the World Bank tracked a reduction of poverty from 652 million Chinese people in 1981 to 135 million in 2004. China’s anti-poverty performance is even remarkable with a standard of $1.25 a day at 2005 PPP. “The numbers in poverty by this measure dropped from 848 million in 1981 to 351 million in 2004. This denotes that there were 517 ($1 standard) or 497 million ($1.25 standard) people who had escaped from absolute poverty during 1981-2004.” A half a billion Chinese citizens have risen out of poverty due to China’s changing policies!
The Chinese were relentless in their efforts to obtain Western technology and grow their economy. They set up trade barriers and manipulated their currency in ways that helped China. The US was at a disadvantage in trade resulting in massive deficits into the billions.
Along comes the Trump Administration, the first administration to address China’s unfair trade advantage. President Trump is a shrewd negotiator and he obviously believes now is the time to encourage China to make changes to their trade barriers with the US. China may have no choice but to go with what the US offers to keep its economy afloat.
The more pressing issues for China surround real estate, in a manner similar to the US in 2008. As China grew, it invested in its infrastructure and in addition it invested in large housing projects throughout the country. These efforts helped bolster China’s already fast growing economy.
The problem is that China over invested in these random properties all over China and these properties today remain empty.
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