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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • In May, officials unveiled the biggest rescue package yet. It contains a 300 billion-yuan ($42 billion) central bank fund that attempts to help local governments buy finished but unsold homes and turn them into subsidized housing.

    Cool.

    That’s aimed to reduce the massive housing inventory, but fell far short of the 1 trillion to 5 trillion yuan that some analysts said was needed to deliver a more decisive fix.

    Uh huh. Go on… Oh that’s it. You just made it the fuck up.

    Separately, the IMF warned of “significant downside risks” to China’s inflation outlook, saying “a negative domestic demand shock amid high debt levels could trigger a period of sustained deflation.”

    So the thing that workers in the west have been asking for wrt the housing market for over a decade now.

    It estimates that real GDP in 2029 could be 5.4% lower in a scenario of prolonged deflation — or a period of declining prices — where core inflation stays at minus 0.1% for five years. That could also lead to slower growth among China’s trading partners.

    Read: Wealthy American capitalists.

    In short, China rejects advice given regarding their housing market from an institution lead by a country with an overinflated and unaffordable housing market.