Since China has gone absolutely BERSERK……….

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Well, I thought the huge spike we witnessed for a few minutes on Sunday was all that it would take to expurgate the short-covering and FOMO-ing of the recently-mega-juiced Chinese stock market, but nope, we beat even the Sunday Spike this morning. The fact that Chinese stock market is closed isn’t stopping the mania.

Problem: the Chinese real estate market is dogshit, and real estate happens to be the centerpiece of the financial world of its citizens.

As a child of Louisiana, I find this map particularly interesting. It’s extraordinary just how much of North America was a French colony at one time.
