Was it all just a bad stock market dream?

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China cut interest rates and reserve ratio requirements late yesterday and markets have rebounded handsomely. Was it all just a bad dream? Were those wall-to-wall calls to buy in the MSM right after all?

No, the convulsion was a warning that the global business cycle has entered its denouement and you should heed that siren. Note that the rally is not so spectacular as to recapture all losses. Not by some distance.

China’s own monetary easing is the problem, not the solution. Here’s Goldman’s take:

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.