China and USA…Two Alerting Perspectives…. by each for each…Residential Housing Bubble in China & Country Rating Downgrade for USA…and where will our Sensex head in the second half of 2010 ?
China and USA…different political idealogies that makes for strange bedfellows….China deliberately keeps it’s Yuan low to benefit from exports to USA…get’s paid in US Dollars which it reinvests substantially in US Government Treasuries !..nearly US $ 900 billion of the US $ 2.3 Trillion Fx Reserves of China are invested in these Treasuries
USA was threatening to declare China manipulator of Currency…China agreed to revalue it’s Yuan upward a wee bit recently and also has just declared their continuing faith in the US Dollar and US Treasuries !
That’s some Consolation between the two on the surface….but the undercurrents run deep
Here are two Alerts….you can put it this way….one by China for USA and the other by USA for China!
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Is China facing a Housing Bubble ?…the Western Countries seem to think so
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A Chinese Credit Rating Agency has just downgraded USA from ‘AAA’ to ‘AA’ Country Rating
Is China facing a Housing Bubble ?
Have a Look at the above Graph that matches the Value of Residential Housing against the Country’s GDP for USA,Japan,Hong Kong and China
In 1989,Japan shows a peak level of 3.8 and since shrunk to 2….Japan has been facing Economic Woes for the past two decades now…..China has reached an alerting level of 3.5 and if historic precedent is to be believed for this parameter,the Fall is inevitable….China is heading for a Real Estate Bubble soon
A Chinese Credit Rating Agency has just downgraded USA from ‘AAA’ to ‘AA’ Country Rating
Two months ago in May 2010 ago I had blogged on how the top Credit Rating Agency S & P yet continued USA’s Rating at ‘AAA’
S & P’s Sovereign Rating of USA remains at Top ‘AAA’….Amusing!
Friday, May 21st, 2010
Now China’s leading Credit Rating Company,Dagong Global Credit Rating Co has downgraded USA from ‘AAA’ to ‘AA’
The World’s Top Three Credit Rating Agencies…all based in the West….S & P,Moodys and Fitch….. have come in for some scathing attacks…and justifiably too…they have lost considerable credibility in the past few years for their failures to spot and alert proactively and, even more stupidly, reactively on Lehman’s Collapse,the Sub Prime Dangers,the Greece Problem among others….seems these rating agencies are a cartel with vested interests and agenda….when a Problem is so apparent even to a Commoner,it becomes difficult to believe that these Top Agencies run by Top People out of Top Colleges and Institutions and with Top Pedigree Degrees and Positions are really Dumb,Stupid and Incompetent or even Complacent!…..so the conclusion is that the ‘High Ratings’ maintained for Corporates and Countries by these Western Agencies is a deliberate Game plan not to break the Hand that’s feeding you…combined probably with a Political agenda too !…..Bloody Shame !