Quote from: BruceCampbell on May 13, 2013, 02:22 amWatch Vice on HBO episode 6 and it shows how China is building ghost towns and empty sky-scrapers to boost it's GDP. They have a replica of Paris that has a 2% occupancy rate. 50% of China's GDP is in real estate. Doomed.Of course. Even without any central direction we could expect some down cycles for different economic sectors. Since China has adopting the world's largest quantitative easing program of all the governments, it shall reap the consequences of opportunity cost. People have been predicting the end of China's growth for decades now, but it doesn't detract from the salient point being that all market economies crash, and all market economies manipulated by central direction store up even more trouble for themselves. I cannot say what will happen in the future, but I think the dog on the street intuitively realizes no economy grows forever in a straight line. Any down cycle shall be a great test for the Chinese people, I hope they manage to tough it out without too much conflict.