The truth about Asian investment banking
China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

Up to 40% of China’s $1.7 trillion LGFV loans are at high risk of default. What’s a panicking Beijing to do?

July 2007

Asian inflation: Don’t show us the money

One of the most puzzling aspects of Asia’s headlong economic growth has been the conspicuous absence of inflation. Despite net foreign exchange inflows of more than $2 trillion since 2000, money supply and credit growth have actually fallen sharply in Asia.


Where has all the money gone? Of course, part of the explanation is the success of Asia’s central banks in removing vast amounts of foreign exchange flows through sterilization. Even so, a net $700 billion has still leaked into domestic economies. And sterilization tends to push interest rates up as domestic liquidity is sucked out of the system. Again, this has not happened in Asia, where real interest rates are at historical lows.

Now Jonathan Anderson,...


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