Matt O'Brien worries:
China might be in a recession today. We can't trust the country's GDP numbers. Just ask possibly-future premier Le Keqiang. In a 2007 cable made public by Wikileaks, Le dismissed China's GDP figures as "man-made." Le explained that he only looked at three statistics to gauge the health of the economy: (1) Bank lending, (2) Electricity consumption, and (3) Rail cargo volume. And these measures say China's economy is screeching to a halt.
Recent Dish on China's deceptively weak economy here.
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