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Saturday, September 19, 2015

FRBSF President Williams on China

John Williams, President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve, recently observed:
“China has garnered almost as much editorial ink in the past month as U.S. presidential candidates—which may or may not be a complimentary comparison. I don’t want to sound pejorative by calling some of the commentary “hand-wringing”—though to be fair, some of it has been downright apocalyptic—but I don’t see the situation as dire. I’ve said publicly over the past few months that after going to China, and after talking to academics and officials there, I came away a lot less concerned than when I arrived. And I have to say that recent events have not changed my thinking to any serious extent.”


Related:
http://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2015/09/chinas-economy-nuanced-view.html