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........... Recipient of the 2010 MacDougal Irving Prize for Truth in Market Manipulation ...........

July 8, 2015

China


     The Shanghai Composite, held as comparable to our S & P 500 by the totally clueless, has tumbled 32% since June 12, including 6% yesterday after a late bounce from down 8% earlier in the session, while over in Shenzhen, that market, spoken of as their NASDAQ where complete imbeciles are want to run on with their imbecilic analogies, is down 41% over those 25 days.  Around a quarter of the companies listing shares on the Shanghai have suspended trading in them, and government officials have announced an investigation into short-sellers.

     Explanations for the bloodletting vary, but for years it's seemed to us that gambling over "common stock" in enterprises controlled by an arm of a communist government with the pinko mindset to build giant cities that nobody lives in may have something to do with the sense of urgency compelling those dice-rollers to get the hell outta Dodge now and again, and now will invariably look like a really, really good time whenever the question comes up.