- Growing…but not growing?The latest economic data from China has some mixed signals. GDP is growing, although that growth rate has slowed a little bit from Q1 to Q3 of this year. Retail spending is also growing relative to 2024 but again, the growth rate is dropping as the months go by and retail spending growth drops belowContinue reading “Growing…but not growing?”
- How China’s “Near-Perfect Competition” market changes brand strategiesWhen I first started to study economics, one of the concepts that caught my imagination was “perfect competition”. While there are many detailed explanations of what this is, perfect competition is essentially a market with the following characteristics: Many Buyers and Sellers: The market is made up of a huge number of independently acting firms andContinue reading “How China’s “Near-Perfect Competition” market changes brand strategies”
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- What the US and China trade in – and how will it be affected by tariff warsChina responded to the US announcement of tariffs by announcing its own counter-tariffs, a move which was met with a threat of even higher tariffs by the US on imports from China. Where that escalation will end, nobody knows, but we thought it might be instructive to look at what key categories of goods areContinue reading “What the US and China trade in – and how will it be affected by tariff wars”
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