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Updated · South China Morning Post · Jul 27
Analysts Urge China to Build ‘Good Bubbles’ as Wall Street Hits Record Highs
Updated
Updated · South China Morning Post · Jul 27

Analysts Urge China to Build ‘Good Bubbles’ as Wall Street Hits Record Highs

3 articles · Updated · South China Morning Post · Jul 27

Summary

  • Chinese analysts are urging Beijing to tolerate or foster “good bubbles” in capital markets, arguing that a more growth-friendly stance is needed to keep money from flowing to the US.
  • Record highs in the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow Jones Industrial Average have strengthened Wall Street’s pull on global capital, while China’s cautious approach has focused more on deflating excesses than promoting market wealth creation.
  • Xiao Geng of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen said regulators need a fundamental shift from pure risk prevention toward creating, accumulating and preserving wealth through capital markets.
  • The debate highlights a widening contrast: Washington is openly celebrating a stock boom as proof of economic revival, while Beijing rarely promotes its own exchanges and now faces pressure to engineer a rival rally.

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