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aloysius  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Signs of a Growing Hush in China’s Economy

I tend to feel that the stock market is a red herring with China, considering the low number of people invested into it. I think it's more a symptom of economic stagnation than the source. Everybody already knew total market growth was slowing, and I think part of that coupled with government intervention is what's made the stock markets so volatile lately, and I think the reason they tried to implement a lot of that stuff was so they could inflate market growth.

But no matter what, they're still seeing a slowing growth in GDP, and a growing political consciousness in the labor force that has led to rising protests year after year. People have been pointing to stock market issues as having potential to cause social unrest, but I stand with the many others who point out the stock market is a far smaller player in the Chinese economy than it is elsewhere. I think the real social unrest is going to come from the general slowed growth, and the change the Chinese economy sees now that it's becoming less a place for cheap labor.