CB:
Cheap commodities are the heavy artillery with which the Chinese Communists are battering down Wall Street.
JG:
Charles, so egregiously wrong again. Cheap commodities are the pop guns with which the Chinese bureaucratic capitalist state earns dollar revenues, which in turn are invested in Barclays and Blackstone equity funds -- in essence aiding asset-stripping around the globe, before going bust.
And after all this, a prominent Chinese banking official declares:
"Except for US Treasuries, what can you hold? US Treasuries are the safe option. For everyone, including China, it is the only option."
Wall Street (where many Chinese financial and monetary authorities have worked for a spell) is quaking in its boots.
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