SLJ Macro Partners - And China now inflates the world away

Stephen Jen and his partner Fatih Yilmaz comments on China not being able to supply as much cheap labor as in the previous years therefore exporting inflation instead of deflation now: higher wages and pushing raw materials prices up too.

They also touch the matter of China being one of the important drivers of "the Great Moderation" seen in the world in the last 30 years of slowing inflation in developed markets. Interesting.

Things are about to change?

This was what prompted the talk about buying long-term bonds in local currency in Brazil that I posted previously.

Will higher inflation corrode even the ridiculously high yields of brazilian sovereign bonds?


Stephen Jen's latest thoughts... on China going past its Lewis' Point and its consequences

 

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