China unleashes pop-gun shrinkulus

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Poor old Bloomberg has no idea about China:

China’s central bank has announced a sweep of support for the economy, as pressure mounts on authorities to unleash stimulus and hit this year’s growth target of around 5%.

China will help banks boost lending to consumers, cut its key short-term interest rate, and lower the mortgage rate for existing housing loans, central bank governor Pan Gongsheng said Tuesday at a briefing in Beijing.

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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.