{"id":488,"date":"2010-09-13T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intuitiveinvestor.com\/web\/?p=488"},"modified":"2018-08-17T14:19:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T18:19:45","slug":"stronger-economic-growth-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/2010\/09\/13\/stronger-economic-growth-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Stronger economic growth in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In August the world&#8217;s second largest economy, China&#8217;s, showed 13.9% growth in industrial production.\u00a0 Because so much of China&#8217;s economy is manufacturing driven this figure is a good approximation of economic health.\u00a0 The result was the first time in several months that the month over month figure was up, rather than down.\u00a0 Lastly, the figure also beat economists&#8217; expectations and by a considerable amount.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Analysis:<\/strong> China is not just the manufacturing locale for U.S. consumer goods, it also is for the entire world.\u00a0 So for the Chinese economy to return to an acceleration of growth is a strong sign that worldwide consumer consumption and growth is getting more robust.\u00a0 Clearly this is a positive thing and doesn&#8217;t require too much analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Importance grade:<\/strong> 7; while important, the Chinese are also notorious liars when it comes to their economic data.\u00a0 I will look for other data that supports the world&#8217;s economy getting healthier.\u00a0 Yes, the European economy revises its growth estimates upward, but by a measly 0.6%.\u00a0 We need more data to ensure a confident return to economic health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Jason<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August the world&#8217;s second largest economy, China&#8217;s, showed 13.9% growth in industrial production.\u00a0 Because so much of China&#8217;s economy is manufacturing driven this figure is a good approximation of economic health.\u00a0 The result was the first time in several months that the month over month figure was up, rather than down.\u00a0 Lastly, the figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}