Credit Bubble Bulletin/Doug Noland/4-5-2020
“It is difficult to envisage this terrible pandemic attacking a global financial system and economy at more fragile states. A heavily indebted world is heading into the worst crisis since World War II. I fear the emerging markets are at the epicenter, with dollar-denominated debt the Achilles heel. … No nation has accumulated more dollar-denominated debt than China.”
USAGOLD note: Noland walks his readers through the financial history preceding the 1997 Asian monetary crisis and says the situation developing in emerging countries now echoes those times. China, he warns, might be at the ‘core’ of a developing emerging-market meltdown.
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