Jim Chanos on China (interview): "We're not bearish enough"

Fast-forward it to 6min20 if you only want to check his view on Chinese real-estate developers.

Chanos doesn't need introductions so I will go straight to the point:

"The bubble is really on the other side of the world. What my team found, they actually came back saying we're not bearish enough. The signs of overcapacity were even much greater than their last visit, which was late last year, and increasingly the executives that they met with were sounding a little bit more uncomfortable about the current situation."

"If you look at the balance sheets of the developers, you'd be hard-pressed to see how healthy they are because they're all loaded up with land just as our developers were at the top of our market," he said. "We've maintained our pretty much dramatic overweight in our Chinese shorts."

When asked about Bloomberg's Adam Johnson who was in China doing research and interviewed a developer who mentioned there's no problem with building since the government pays them ahead:

"You can't pre-sell and use the proceeds for the next development. That's changed."

 Bloomberg (on YouTube) - Jim Chanos is still short chinesse real estate developers

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