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TRACKING THE AUTHOR OF "CURRENCY WARS" AND GOLD VIGILANTE JIM RICKARDS - AN UNOFFICIAL TRACKING OF HIS INVESTMENT COMMENTARY
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Chinese Growth is Set to Slowdown Further
I have been going for Chinese growth to get to 3 or 4%. I would say that China`s growth is already at 4%. I know they print 7.5%. But about half of the GDP they produce is wasted. So if I build a $5 billion train station in a small town that is $5 billion of GDP- this money is completely wasted because 10 people getting on the train are not going to pay for a $5 billion station. So you go around China with these ghost cities we have talked about before... So it is generating GDP, but it is completely wasted. If you adjusted the published GDP figures for the amount of waste, their actual growth is probably already roughly 4%. That is going to go lower.