China’s banks are slowly coming to heel
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We know that sounds heretical, but just look at the bank asset data – to us, it’s the broadest and most important measure of what’s going on in China’s banking system right now.
The latest data – for August – shows that bank assets expanded at 10.9% y/y in August – that is down from 11.3% in Ju...