Back From China!
BREAKING NEWS!! OK, the news of today is of course the eurozone deal struck tonight by the EU leaders. A very good initiative in the right direction I think, but I am afraid it is too little and too late. I will be back on this later. BREAKING NEWS!! I am now back from Hangzhou and Zhejiang University and instead of dwelling on the euro area I want to write a little on my feelings about China before i forget all about it.... I have stressed the bubble tendencies in China in earlier blogs, see for instance " Go east, boys and girls !", and it is possible that we might see the start of the great deflation of this bubble now. Chinese stock prices have moved sideways for some time now, default rates in entrepreneurial hotspots such as Wenzhou are picking up and house price increases in places such as Hangzhou are starting to slow down (they say, how would I know….). Square meter prices in Hangzhou are the highest in China and average around USD4000. In prime locations, such as t...