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China’s 2018 Economic Slowdown: Much Worse than the Official Tally

CFEGuru

05/31/2019

By Robert Barbera and Yingyao Hu

Our nighttime illumination estimate for 2018 Chinese growth, 4.2%, is roughly one third weaker than the Chinese official claim of a 6.5% climb for […]

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Memo to the Fed: Remember 2008

Floyd Norris

04/12/2019

One thing I learned during more than 40 years as a journalist is that the power to set the terms of the debate sometimes can be decisive in determining the […]