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The Other Side Of China's 8% GDP "Growth": Ghost Cities

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All those who have spent late hours playing SimCity 3000 and never understood why the damn thing would never get any people to move into it, will derive a deranged pleasure from the following clip. In China, where 8% GDP is guaranteed and has to be "goal seeked" by any and every increasingly more deranged economic project, the authorities have taken the game of SimCity and applied it to real life. Alas, they started out on "difficult" level.

Ordos is a hyper modern city, full of brand new glass walled residential and commercial buildings, yet devoid of inhabitants. In its attempt to present a "growing" economy, and to "invest" its $585 billion stimulus into anything and everything, courtesy of comparable idiocy on the other side of the Pacific, China's communist party is now ruling over ghost towns. One wonders just how many such "efficient" projects sustain China's magical 8% growth.

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Thu, 11/12/2009 - 17:48 | Link to Comment J.B. Books
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Love the shoes.......!! 

I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

Books

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 23:13 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 17:49 | Link to Comment nightfly
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I'd rather have a new city that a richer GS! What have we gotten for our bailouts? Just huge bonuses for the banks.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:01 | Link to Comment Divided States ...
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Its not a good sign to see this but I think at least they are putting good use of the stockpiles of commodities they have and whether this is sustainable or not, the GDP effect is real. Also, in case something bad happens to one of the major cities, voila, there is a back up plan. Maybe the US should start doing the same thing and build some backup cities in case of something bad. At least it takes people and their own hands to buiild those cities, not bankers and their algo hft trading machines.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 19:45 | Link to Comment Harbourcity
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I agree.  What happened to doing infrastructure as a means to expand GDP versus throwing money at banks.

 

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 19:59 | Link to Comment Johnny G.
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+1

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 21:10 | Link to Comment cougar_w
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The report mentions also the Chinese buidling a trans-national railroad. Some of the $trillions we've given to the banks might have built a nice high-speed rail project across the country that would have served everyone and been a backup strategy for a day when the jets don't fly anymore.

Ah, the road not taken.

cougar

Thu, 12/16/2010 - 17:39 | Link to Comment zero-g
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I caught that too, sounded way too rational and far-sighted for the US though. Ever read about the Deep Underground Military Bases? Check it out, they have high speed underground transportation systems, but the military always gets a blank check.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 17:52 | Link to Comment rtalcott
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http://current.com/items/90940241_first-solar-to-start-largest-solar-pow...


Ordos City in China signed an agreement to build what will be a 2-gigawatt solar installation in the Inner Mongolia city. First Solar has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Chinese government to build a 2-gigawatt (GW) solar power plant in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China.

 

rt

 

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 17:54 | Link to Comment deadhead
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what a video.....folks, you've got to see this one to believe it.

 

why you hat tipping yourself?

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 19:20 | Link to Comment deadhead
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it might be part of the easter egg thing andy.

 

so, do we have yet another double top? or, maybe just the start of a new left shoulder lol!!

 

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 21:15 | Link to Comment Howard_Beale
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Let me know when you have it figured out DH--I'm thinking a quadruple top. I got swabbed 3 days ago after my temperature roared to 104 and tested positive for H1N1 and to add to the misery I have walking pneumonia--thus my absence for the last week.  Watching important television like Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares and Holmes on Homes until I get better or we just start to crash because a) it is too painful to read and b) it is too painful to be awake. I highly recommend 103 degree fevers so you no longer give a damn about monetary policy.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 17:54 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 17:55 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 17:58 | Link to Comment GlassHammer
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I really love it when pundits profess their love for GDP and how its the best way to measure a country's economic strength. This is a perfect example of growth for the soul purpose of showing a nice GDP.

God forbid anyone actually use more than a cooked economic indicator to determine the strength of a country.

I almost laughed when the man they interviewed said "its too expensive to live here but maybe some other time". I remember being told that the Chinese don't bluntly say "no" but instead say "maybe later". So the man they interviewed really said "no we will never move here".

 

 

 

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 17:58 | Link to Comment rtalcott
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http://current.com/items/89867206_ordos-100-100-of-the-coolest-homes-bui...

The scope of the project is to Develop 100 hundred villas in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, for the Client, Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd. FAKE Design, Ai Wei Wei studio in Beijing, has developed the masterplan for the 100 parcels of land and will curate the project, while Herzog and de Meuron have selected the 100 architects to participate. The collection of 100 Architects hail from 27 countries around the globe. The project has been divided into 2 phases. The first phase is the development of 28 parcels while the second phase will develop the remaining 72. Each architect is responsible for a 1000 square meter Villa.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:56 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:01 | Link to Comment Green Sharts
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Here's a video on the world's largest shopping mall, also in China, virtually empty.

http://video.iptv.org/video/1218530801#

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:57 | Link to Comment Ode to Trading
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Now that's errie. The idea of "growth" just for the sake of "growth" is so shortsighted. 

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:34 | Link to Comment bonddude
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Freaky, makes that blog "Ghostmalls" look upbeat !

Anyway, Guangdong is supposed to be their big growth story. So all that solar stock hubbub is falacious ?

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 21:08 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 23:52 | Link to Comment Spitzer
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West problems squared ? How many cities and railways and malls could you buy with 2 trillion $$$$ ?

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 00:33 | Link to Comment Johnny G.
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+1

They should spend every rectangular green piece of paper they have on tangible goods.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 00:55 | Link to Comment Jim_Rockford
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Here's a nugget from the wayback machine ... see any similarities?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOHdER6aQYQ

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 17:43 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:06 | Link to Comment Green Sharts
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Australia should be feeling really good right now about their recovery that is driven by selling raw materials to China.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 19:11 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:11 | Link to Comment Johnny G.
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The Aussies never had the excesses, or population we did.  They have the population of New York spread throughout a country the size of the U.S.   They have almost no federal income tax.  The have tremendous resources, fertile land, and a very low crime rate.   They didn't need to print $2Tr to "save" their economy, and they didn't give houses away to people who couldn't afford them with 3% down payments then dump off the mortgages as AAA paper to the rest of the world.  Their recovery was inevitable.  China just helped accelerate the inflation in Perth (which is why they had to raise rates).

You're right, they should be feeling good.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:40 | Link to Comment che
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australian government is not indebted that much is true. but consumer and corporate sectors are just as much in debt as in the USA or in UK. when China stops building ghost cities and bullet trains to middle of the nowhere, Australia will join the rest of the anglosaxon world.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 00:39 | Link to Comment Johnny G.
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They believe corporate debt leverages their economy in a positive manner.  And I believe they're correct.  They only have government bonds so that they'll have a "risk free" benchmark to price corporate debt.  Seriously, if you compare Australia and Canada to the U.S. and Germany (I assume that's the Saxon part), you haven't any idea what's going to happen over the next generation.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:46 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 00:42 | Link to Comment Johnny G.
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Actually, their property taxes are quite reasonable.  It's their State tax that approaches 35%.  There's also an ungodly VAT/luxury tax that pushes the price of a new Porsche Cab (911, 997, whatever you want to call it) in excess of AU$200K.

Their homes are expensive because they pay no tax on gain on their residence.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 02:38 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 23:14 | Link to Comment reading
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Hey now, 

WE gave our houses away for 0% down to people who couldn't afford them...that has to make it better.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 04:30 | Link to Comment blueskyscottsdale
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the next big wave out of China is China tourism. Eventually 1.3billion people are going touristing around the world. Australia will be a major destination for China's tourists. As for the empty mall purportedly in Guangdong, this clip was on Reuters and a person from China commented the mall is 100km from the city. So, no wonder the mall is empty.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 08:49 | Link to Comment Green Sharts
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I didn't mean to suggest that Australia is as screwed as the U.S., just that the recent resurgence tied to Chinese demand for raw materials may not be sustainable if China is using the raw materials to build cities, shopping malls, roads and trains well ahead of demand for them.

 

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:14 | Link to Comment darkpool2
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Brilliant concept ! Definitely deals with China's other concerns about controlling "social unrest" 

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:22 | Link to Comment Ragnarok
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I was living in Dubai in late 2007  and this very similar to what was happening there.  I remember entire quadrants of the city with multiple sky scapers empty.  We had people come buy our work and try to get us to invest in apartments and villas that no one was living in on pure speculation that if youy build it they will come. We all remember how that worked out.... I believe Abu Dahbi has them by the balls now. 

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 19:51 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 12/11/2009 - 09:45 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:25 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:27 | Link to Comment Charley
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WOW!

Hey, we have one of those empty cities right here in the USA - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JbGxIR8JTk&feature=related

 

 

Tue, 08/10/2010 - 02:54 | Link to Comment Circumspice
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Except Detroit grew and was used heavily since the early 1800s. Building Neo-Ordos pulled money away from productive activities to create a city that almost no one uses or has ever used.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:27 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:29 | Link to Comment Racer
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Where the elite built difficult to access areas so the peasants were kept at bay

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Chan

Nothing changes, just the centuries

The book Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti describes it far better that any words I can say

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:43 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:53 | Link to Comment Missing_Link
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No, no, you're all missing the point.  They're preparing habitations for the current residents of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand, who will need them after the impending supervolcanic eruption of Krakatoa.

Watch this link for the upcoming earthquake swarms in the Sunda Strait region between the islands west of Jakarta.  There were two 5.0+ quakes already this week south of Bengkulu.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/105_-5.php

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:40 | Link to Comment bonddude
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Yes of course. And China's military is seeding the volcanos right now with help from Blowfeld and his pussycat...or is it ...

DR. EVIL ! MUUWWAAAHAHAHAA

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 00:04 | Link to Comment Missing_Link
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No, that's in Phase III, which won't be implemented until 2027.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:54 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:56 | Link to Comment faustian bargain
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lol...the traffic cop is like "...ah, screw this, I'm going home."

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:56 | Link to Comment sawyer
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Here's another video of empty buildings in China:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ektMQGbW3wk

 

 

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 19:16 | Link to Comment geopol
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WOW Empty buildings in China........ Try Detroit...

 

China no longer NEEDS US,,,,,GOT IT.

The gorilla has us by the balls...On Obama's visit, OK, I'm sorry for the tire tax..... hehe Can we talk?

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:51 | Link to Comment bonddude
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That is why I love Hugh Hendry. He gets out there with the people...and the bogus GDP drivers.

I would say rather than be in the inflation trade everyone is in with both feet, one should be prepared for a deflation Black Swan. The scam can't last forever.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 19:37 | Link to Comment Bubby BankenStein
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Invest in China for the long term??

Just wait for the miracle to bust.  It will.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:14 | Link to Comment Johnny G.
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I don't know Bubby.  I spent some time in Shanghai.  It makes NYC look piss ant.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 03:06 | Link to Comment Gordon_Gekko
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The biggest bubble is not China but the US Dollar.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 19:56 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:17 | Link to Comment Johnny G.
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LOL!!  I nearly choked.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 02:07 | Link to Comment TumblingDice
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Whoops.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 03:16 | Link to Comment theoilyboy
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It didn't fall over, it is just resting.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 08:58 | Link to Comment Green Sharts
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You have to give them credit for spacing the high rises far enough apart so they could fall without taking out another building. 

 

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 09:09 | Link to Comment whydtinogo
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A return to horizontal living - I like it

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:26 | Link to Comment waterdog
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It amazes me how people in the land of me, me, and me can forget what communism does to its citizens. In China there is no such thing as a lie because only the government can speak. Do you really think that the reporter went to that city without permission? Do you believe the reason why no one lives there is because it is too expensive? Are you convinced that the person was a cop? Do you honestly believe that the GDP of China is 8%? If you do then there was no lead paint in those toys. The reason why the drywall will kill you is because of the humidity, not the temperature.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:51 | Link to Comment faustian bargain
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China is as communist as America is capitalist.

 

But both countries' GDP figures are full of fluff.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 21:09 | Link to Comment waterdog
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Yes, you are correct.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:27 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 00:54 | Link to Comment Johnny G.
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After a few more years, 1.6 billion consumers won't need to export (they're going to be net importers in 20 years) - never forget they are five times our size.  They're only using us for the time being.

I believe their biggest challenge will be the corruption and quality control issues which appear to be cultural (drywall, lead paint, 20 story apartment buildings that tip over, etc.)

Bottom line, they are, where the U.S. was in 1910.  Read Upton Sinclair and envelope yourself in the parallelism.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 09:14 | Link to Comment Green Sharts
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Everybody has more capacity than demand and is biding their time until an economic recovery will enable them to export.  The weak dollar is supposed to help the U.S. export more.  China's yuan is pegged to the dollar so they're going to export more too.  The FT had a long story this week on how German industry is not laying off people, still hiring more engineers, still maintaining R&D spending, expecting a rebound in exports.  Virtually every major country in the EU has a cash for clunkers program ("scrappage schemes" they call them) to keep demand for autos going and helping them to avoid layoffs.  The EU's scrappage schemes have been running for much longer than the U.S. program did, so auto sales in the EU are down less than 10% year over year versus roughly 30% in the U.S. The EU has enough auto capacity to make 4 million units more than the peak demand in 2007, or about 20 plants at 200K units each, but they haven't closed a single auto plant. A number of European governments have programs to provide compensation to workers whose hours are cut as a way of encouraging employers to reduce work weeks rather than lay people off.  Japan's population is aging and it remains an export driven economy.

Now that the U.S. is choking on debt, which countries are going to pick up the slack as net importers for all these countries around the world that plan to be net exporters?

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:35 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:47 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:49 | Link to Comment Kayman
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   So... China does not lie, does not manipulate its currency, does not inflate its GDP.  Just ask Timothy Geithner, it must be so.

   Clinton and Bush got the U.S. into this one-way trade mess- pushed along by Corporate America.  With all the productive manufacturing jobs "outsourced" to China's junk factories, how in the hell can this country earn its way out ?

  

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:52 | Link to Comment faustian bargain
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minimize regulations and taxes, for one.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 01:30 | Link to Comment Clancy
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China also protects its industry from excessive foreign competition.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 20:53 | Link to Comment waterdog
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By not buying anything made in China. But, how can a me, me, and me society deal with that solution?

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 21:00 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Fri, 11/13/2009 - 01:11 | Link to Comment Jim_Rockford
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This would explain the real reason behind why GS is "short gold" as revealed on Marla's radio show The 100 Trillion Dollar Pyramid.

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 21:22 | Link to Comment tomdub_1024
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Guess they better keep buiding these cities, maybe a couple in Africa and South America as well, if they expect export demand to "bounce back" in 2010...but then again my 401k sales guy expects the consumer to be peeled off the wall and spending on shiny, new things next year, and now is the time to invest in growth/high-yield funds...so what do I know, I'm just an old (at 44) curmudgeon...*sigh*...

Thu, 11/12/2009 - 23:16 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 00:55 | Link to Comment Sigma O
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Ordos is located in Chinese Mongolia and gets its name from a Mongol word which is variously translated as "camp" or "horde". So this is "Horde City": homebase for the next Kublai Khan.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 01:29 | Link to Comment Clancy
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There's one of these just north of me.  The "development zone" just outside Dalian.

It's really creepy to go there, the sidewalks and roads are literally empty.

Oh well, at least all this development was paid for with cash and not loans.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 01:58 | Link to Comment badgerman67
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Its not just China its pretty much all of developing Asia.  As for the Yuan appreciating enough for anyone to care highly unlikely.  By the way this is not just limited to China, Vietnam is building entire satellite cities outside of HCM.  Check out Keppel Land and they are just one developer.  There are limitations on ex pat buyers in Vietnam and with most of the population living on about $1/day type wages.  Where will the actual physical demand come from, who knows they worry about that tomorrow?  Figure most of this money is coming from China or China via Singapore.  Real Estate buyers in this part of the world are undeterred by vacancy since they view RE estate as basically a commodity.  This will eventually be a drag on GDP as the dead equity sits with no yield and no velocity.

As for AUS, 6% arable land does not really suggest an abundance of fertile soil and they look to have some current/future water issues.  They had a pretty substantial run in property prices too. IF you believe the IMF prices are really not inline with income.

Brazil still seems like the best bet as they took the pain.  Something the US seems unwilling to do.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 02:09 | Link to Comment TumblingDice
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Quaint. Later they can boost GDP by hiring a wrecking crew.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 03:00 | Link to Comment Gordon_Gekko
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Why is ZH biased against China? Let me just say first of all that I don't think China is perfect. There's a lot they are not doing right and can do better. That said, there's a lot they ARE doing right. Just because the US going down the shithole doesn't necessarily mean everything else is too. First - at least they got something to show for their money as opposed to the US where all the money went into bankers' numbered Swiss accounts (which, BTW, WON'T be touched by the IRS). Second - the report doesn't say it's "abandoned", but more like people will move into it at some point in the future. It also says that the Chinese government is planning for the residents from the old city to move into the new one, and I'm pretty sure if the residents can't do it on their own (due to high prices), some kind of subsidy will be provided by the Chinese government to accomplish it. Although I am normally against subsidies, in this case what's the harm? Everybody gets to live in a new city with brand new infrastructure - much better than the US where you can be 10000% sure that ZERO money will be spent on actually benefiting anything human (only squids).

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 03:32 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 09:01 | Link to Comment whydtinogo
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agree - tick tock times running out

 

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 08:59 | Link to Comment whydtinogo
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Sure it matters - destroying perfectly fine economic goods with new ones simply does not add any economc value to the system. Its identical to cash for clunkers - destroying a vehicle this is perfectly ok destroys economc value therefore the new one does not add new value simply replaces the old. I assume as a US tax payer you dont mind subsidising the auto industry and new auto buyers? If you do object at least you can complain, the Chinese cant and they are subsidising the fckn shebang - whats the collective for squid again ... ah yes a national peoples congress of squid.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 03:11 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 03:26 | Link to Comment mr brincq
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and now to the accounting of Chinese economy....China's 8% output growth will be met because China's economic statistics are based on recorded production activity, rather than being a measure of expenditure growth- defined as the sum of consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports- as the U.S. dataare. (see the clip!) For example shipments to retailers are counted as retail sales on the apparent assumption that ultimately all goods shipped will be sold some point in the future.....dream on on the Chinese growth miracle....just try a small test for yourself....everytime you hear the word China....replace it with the word internet....

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 04:37 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 07:18 | Link to Comment Chopshop
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Nice piece Tyler ... ahhhh, "reticulating splines."  Thanks Sid Meier.

SimCity 2000 was the first Sim game to feature the semi-nonsensical phrase "Reticulating Splines", which means to make a network of splines. Will Wright has stated in an interview that the game does not actually reticulate splines when generating terrain, and he just inserted the phrase because it "sounded cool."

Reticulating splines was a process from Sim city by which points in space can be randomly generated using a fractal algorithm to generate game play randomization tables by which we can insert chaos into the game.

Reticulating splines and fractal algo's, each ubiquitous in nature.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 07:34 | Link to Comment nevket240
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I think I commented on this site about this very issue not long ago. Simply, you have to see these condo cities to understand the scale of the freakin things. When you fly along the coast from Shanhai to Zhuhai you can see them clearly from 35000ft. No roads, nothing. From Huangzhou to Shanghai by very good train these condocities are, again, everywhere in the background. No lights on. No residents.

The Pearl River delta, from HK around to Macau, has a very heavy industrialised skyline. Soon it too will be condocitied. 100,000,000 people will inhabit this delta. The polution is unbearable now.??????

8% growth, pigs arse!! If that were true then all of the closed industies in Guandong etc would be operating as they were in 07.

regards

if you go to China beware of their poor social graces. they have none. the young,<30, are lovely. the older they get the more obnoxious they get. be warned.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 09:24 | Link to Comment Green Sharts
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With regard to that 8% Chinese GDP growth fantasy, if exports were 30% of GDP and dropped 20% (Japan's exports dropped more like 35%), that's a minus 6% impact on GDP. So the remaining 70% of the economy had to grow 20% for a plus 14% impact to get overall GDP to 8%.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 07:43 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 11/13/2009 - 08:53 | Link to Comment whydtinogo
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ChinCity indeed - my boys play the SimCity and get people to come in and live and that when things start to go wrong apparently. Rvenues never match the expenses and when they bump up the taxes discontent ensues all the while demand for cleaner air etc rises. Still China can and does tax the hell out of the populace, stuffs them with heavily polluted air, and if they get to bolshi execute them. This can only be the future model for the USA - BHO will see the light, he plans to appoint a relocation Czar when he gets back. After all he needs to narrow the gap in central palnning with China.

 

As an aside how many more poor bastards have got to die in Afganistan before BHO decides to either man the forces appropriately or get them the hell out there.

Sat, 11/14/2009 - 08:45 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Wed, 12/16/2009 - 17:53 | Link to Comment Joe Sixpack
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Shades of Dubai. I was just in China (near Shanghai). The construction mania has moderated, but it still feels bubbly.

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That's just fucking amazing...for a moment.

Then it seems all too familiar.

Good luck with that, Beijing.

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Wed, 02/23/2011 - 03:17 | Link to Comment shawnlee
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