Financial Sector

As an economist, you oftentimes risk ridicule for the mere mention of the word “inflation” among your peers, for the simple reason that in the recent and relatively recent past, deflationary rather than inflationary forces needed to be tackled. Over the past not decade but (two) decades, we have witnessed a downright collapse in the

On more than one occasion, we have explained that compared to Western savers (who have flaws of their own, of course), Chinese savers are let’s say less sophisticated for a wide range of reasons. Before continuing with this article, it therefore makes sense to enumerate the most important reasons and take it from there. Please

Here at ChinaFund.com and on pretty much any let’s call it financial outlet, quite a bit of energy has been continuously dedicated to market participants (from the average consumer to large corporations) who have been caught off-guard by 2020’s developments or, the same way, by the Great Recession or any other past calamity. We’ve written

Here at ChinaFund.com, we like to keep our thoughts and website organized so as to deliver the best possible results and in the spirit of just that, it makes sense to start with a bit of an inventory of (quasi-axioms) before proceeding with today’s article, one through which we will try to identify the limits

In a previous article, we have explained that governments and central banks from all around the world are embarking on what seems to be a one-way (monetary as well as fiscal) stimulus journey and that China will most likely not exactly represent an exception. In fact, a compelling case could be made that Beijing set