After dozens of separate interventions, manipulations, and central-planning machinations over the past three weeks, China resorted to threats overnight when it called for the arrest of "hostile short sellers." [5] The reason they went full Orwell, this is the great loss of 'wealth' in China's history...
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China's $2 trillion loss in 17 days is the equivalent of 1 India, or...
China has lost 15 Greeces in market cap in three weeks
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 8, 2015 [7]
In other words, China has to stop the bleeding before it loses another India... or the socially-unrest citizenry will demand gambling returns elsewhere or, absent hope, demand change...
