Economy: going from bad to worse - Arthur Kroeber

Arthur Kroeber

Economist Arthur Kroeber might have been an acknowledged bull on China´s economy in the past, now, for 2016 he expects things to turn worse than they are already, as the heavy industry is expected to shed 7 million jobs, he tells at NPR.

NPR:

First, the bad news about China’s shifting economy: "The risk is that if the government doesn’t do enough structural reform, you wind up with lower and lower growth and higher and higher debt, and pretty soon you wind up looking like Japan in the early 1990s," said Arthur Kroeber, managing director of GaveKal Dragonomics in Beijing. 

He predicts that in 2016, China’s economy will see a turning point for the worse. "We expect to see factory closures, and bankruptcies, and write-offs in the heavy industrial sector to accelerate this year by quite a lot. We're entering a new era," Kroeber said. He estimates five to seven million layoffs for China’s heavy industrial sector.

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