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Where Are the Chinese Stock-Market Riots?

Perhaps regular people are too worried about the earthquake efforts and children who died as a result of corrupt construction in Sichuan, or generally surging inflation across the country. Small retail investors are not very important players but yes they have lost their shirts because of China's pyramid-scheme stockmarket. They have a right to be unhappy.

China's Biggest Real Estate Developer Approved for IPO

There's a huge oversupply of empty shell buildings and new construction in China. R/e returns have been driven by capital gains not revenue streams and now-falling asset values aren't recognized on the books.

Some branches of government are trying to stop the investment in real estate to moderate the impact of a potentially imploding bubble. It even appears floorspace is being artificially held off the market to try and hide the problem.

Real estate developers, construction companies, and government in China are closely linked. The idea of an entrepreneurial class of developers is China is unrealistic. Corruption is a major part of the game. R/E is probably one of the worst investments in China at present.

Yes, real estate will help combat inflation as real prices will continue to fall. The huge glut of money in China has nowhere to go and is being devalued by an under-estimated monetary inflation problem.

The Power of the Market: 600 Million People in China Lifted Out of Poverty Since 1981

Amazing that the CCP gets any credit for reform when they ran China into the ground for 40 years. The success since then should be seen against the catastrophic failures between 1949-1978, including millions who died in a government-policy inspired famine.

Moving from USD $1 to USD $2 per day is important when you're dirt poor, but not much to celebrate. While most continue to struggle, the ruling CCP elite line their pockets with the nation's wealth, denying the majority of basic rights, and causing incalculable damage to China's environment.

Is this really the measure of success? China should expect and demand more.

China's Biggest Real Estate Developer Approved for IPO

Wait until China's real estate glut works itself out before you buy. It's difficult to make money from an oversupply of empty shell buildings.

In any case, government should get out of the real estate business instead of asking minority investors to buy in and finance their whims and boondoggles.

China's Worst Bear Market

There's no big government selling. China's not privatizing companies through the stock market. Check your facts. Any major selling is just SOE cross holdings. The Socialist Market Economy is government owned, sorry if you were misled.

China's Worst Bear Market

It's already a cheating machine and always has been.

The companies are just government operations and government held stocks won't float because there is no plan to privatize. New regs ensure government maintains control, they're not to protect the stock market.

Could Inflation in China Hurt ETFs?

From a Beijing on-the-street perspective, it looks like China's inflation numbers grossly underestimate the problem. Restaurants and grocery stores are busy marking up prices, and the increases are far more than one would expect given the numbers to date. Watch out.