Comment by narrator
1 day ago
How they do financial bailouts by printing their own debt-free money and having fine-grained control of the banking system is also something that the west doesn't do.
1 day ago
How they do financial bailouts by printing their own debt-free money and having fine-grained control of the banking system is also something that the west doesn't do.
Chinese cities can't print their own money.
> How they do financial bailouts by printing their own debt-free money [...]
What do you mean by that?
> [...] and having fine-grained control of the banking system is also something that the west doesn't do.
Giving bureaucrats even more levers to pick winners badly isn't a good idea. There's a reason China isn't as rich as the west.
Non-performing loans of state-owned entities get bought by asset management companies (AMCs) with AMC liabilities. People's Bank of China liquifies AMC Liabilities so the banks keep lending.[1] AMCs often then can't pay because the state-owned entity isn't able to pay on the loan it bought. They then get bailed out by the Ministry of Finance, but the actual source of funds inside the government is difficult to discern [2].
[1] https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2024/apr/chinas... [2] https://newbagehot.yale.edu/docs/china-1999-asset-management...