China has now become the biggest risk to the world economy (?)

While the Australian economy is doing better than most at the moment, it still has its problems — while unemployment is low, a large number of people were forced into part time work during the short recession, and has its concerns — economic growth is too heavily dependent on China. Interesting coverage of a tour [...]

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Commodity charts show no signs of much economic recovery

These are buoyant times for (some) commodity investors, and (some) commodity producers, what does it mean in terms of a global recovery? A common feature among people drawing conclusions about the economy from commodity markets tends to be a sole focus on price, and even then only prices in exchange traded commodities. If buyers out [...]

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