China: Is This Classic Post-Bubble Price Action? [View article]
That is precisely what is exciting about China's prospects. As the 3/4 of the population is lifted out of extreme poverty they start to be able to afford the non-essentials. Growth from zero to 1 is an infinite percentage move!
The recent data on car sales and white good sales in China bears out this dynamic.
On Nov 05 05:11 PM untrusting investor wrote:
> True, but how much can the average Chinese consumer purchase with > an average per capital income of something like $6K? One has to guess > that most of that per capita income would barely provide for subsistence > living. Saw the statistics on China per capita breakdown and it was > something like 3/4 of the entire population is $6K or less in annual > income. The other 1/4 is of course doing better but much of that > was at about the $20K annual level.
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That is precisely what is exciting about China's prospects. As the 3/4 of the population is lifted out of extreme poverty they start to be able to afford the non-essentials. Growth from zero to 1 is an infinite percentage move!
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The recent data on car sales and white good sales in China bears out this dynamic.
On Nov 05 05:11 PM untrusting investor wrote:
> True, but how much can the average Chinese consumer purchase with
> an average per capital income of something like $6K? One has to guess
> that most of that per capita income would barely provide for subsistence
> living. Saw the statistics on China per capita breakdown and it was
> something like 3/4 of the entire population is $6K or less in annual
> income. The other 1/4 is of course doing better but much of that
> was at about the $20K annual level.