By Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard
China defies IMF on mounting credit risk and need for urgent reform
If you think China's Communist Party fully understands the mess it has created by ramping credit to 200pc of GDP and running the greatest investment bubble know to man, read its shockingly complacent response to warnings from the International Monetary Fund.
As you can see from the first chart, total credit has jumped from 129pc to 195pc of GDP since 2008, and has completely departed from its historic trend. The great mistake, plainly, was to keep the foot on the floor in 2010 and 2011, long after the Lehman crisis had subsided.
China defies IMF on mounting credit risk and need for urgent reform
If you think China's Communist Party fully understands the mess it has created by ramping credit to 200pc of GDP and running the greatest investment bubble know to man, read its shockingly complacent response to warnings from the International Monetary Fund.
As you can see from the first chart, total credit has jumped from 129pc to 195pc of GDP since 2008, and has completely departed from its historic trend. The great mistake, plainly, was to keep the foot on the floor in 2010 and 2011, long after the Lehman crisis had subsided.
The IMF's Article IV report on China states - as clearly as the IMF dares -
that excess credit has been pushed to the outer limits of sanity, and that there
is a growing risk of an "adverse feedback loop" as the financial system and the
economy take each other down in a mutually reinforcing spiral.
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