{"id":5396,"date":"2012-09-06T00:11:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T04:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2012-09-06T00:11:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T04:11:15","slug":"chinas-overinvestment-the-problem-of-having-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/06\/chinas-overinvestment-the-problem-of-having-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s overinvestment: the problem of having too much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Zarathustra:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How is it that an economy grows at 7.6% yoy is squeezing corporate profitability so hard? How is it that an economy growing at 7.6% yoy feel like there is not enough demand for all the goods and services being produced?&#8230;..The answer, to our mind, is quite simply that China has been investing in too much productive capacity&#8230;&#8230; The return on investments might be good before the financial crisis, yet the collapse of external demand after the financial crisis and more recently in the persistent Euro Crisis have cut external demand significantly. Meanwhile, domestic demand is not growing quite enough to pick up the slack created by collapse of external demand. Worse still, it is rather clear that domestic demand has been sustained by none other than investment itself. Thus, it should come as very little surprise that IMF\u2019s estimate put China\u2019s capacity utilisation at just about 60%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alsosprachanalyst.com\/economy\/chinas-overinvestment-the-problem-of-having-too-much.html\">China\u2019s overinvestment: the problem of having too much<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to Macrobusiness.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zarathustra: How is it that an economy grows at 7.6% yoy is squeezing corporate profitability so hard? How is it that an economy growing at 7.6% yoy feel like there is not enough demand for all the goods and services being produced?&#8230;..The answer, to our mind, is quite simply that China has been investing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/06\/chinas-overinvestment-the-problem-of-having-too-much\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;China\u2019s overinvestment: the problem of having too much&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,5],"tags":[566,663,1079,1330,2597],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china-hk","category-economy","tag-capacity-utilization","tag-china","tag-domestic-demand","tag-external-demand","tag-overinvestment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>China\u2019s overinvestment: the problem of having too much - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China\u2019s overinvestment: the problem of having too much - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Zarathustra: How is it that an economy grows at 7.6% yoy is squeezing corporate profitability so hard? 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