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From Vesna Poljak:<\/p>\n

….China’s stimulus is finite and demand for raw materials will collapse without it.<\/p>\n

Australian Atul Lele, the Bahamas-based chief investment officer of private wealth manager Deltec, says all monetary and fiscal stimulus has a natural conclusion \u2013 “it just ends” \u2013 and traditional indicators of commodity prices such as global growth and liquidity conditions have been outrun by prices already.<\/p>\n

“Right now, commodity prices are consistent with 8 per cent global industrial production. If we saw that, ex of the financial crisis recovery, it would be the strongest rate of global industrial production growth since 1981, at least. Now I’m bullish global growth and more bullish than most people, but it’s not going to happen and even if it does happen, all you’ve done is justify current commodity prices. So why would you buy a resource stock now?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

China continues to inject stimulus to revive its economy but that is making its financial system increasingly unstable. Credit growth in excess of 30% of annual GDP warns of a banking crisis according to the BIS<\/a>. And shrinking foreign reserves<\/a> flag that the currency is under pressure. <\/p>\n

China faces the impossible trinity<\/a>. According to David Llewellyn-Smith at Macrobusiness, a country pegged to the Dollar can only achieve two out of the following three:<\/p>\n