Daily Headline – 08/04/13

Is China lined up for economic collapse?

As the developed world is still suffering from the 2007 global economic crisis with austerity the weapon of choice by the ruling elite around the world is China, who though has not been immune to the global effects as demand for Chinese manufacturing declined slightly as belts were tightened, lining itself up for the same?

Chinese banks have long been ‘cooking the books’ and it’s getting worse, credit for loans is available to those with bad credit on an unprecedented scale in China. Just the same as was in the US that kicked off the global recession.

The problem is not just how much risk there is in the Chinese banking sector but ‘risky loans’ being shifted to the lightly regulated ‘shadow banking’ institutions – mainly trust companies, brokerages and insurance companies.

According to Reuters:
Trust assets increased 55 percent in 2012 to 7.5 trillion yuan ($1.21 trillion), according to the China Trustee Association, while funds entrusted to brokerages by banks soared more than fivefold to 1.61 trillion yuan.

Capitalism doesn’t work, western capitalism or Chinese capitalism, it doesn’t matter. Banking, finance and ‘the markets’ are always a catastrophe waiting to happen.