Chinese deflation is forever now

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The Chinese CPI is going nowhere but down.

In October 2024 , the national consumer price index rose by 0.3% year-on – year . Among them, the urban price rose by 0.2% and the rural price rose by 0.3% ; food prices rose by 2.9% and non-food prices fell by 0.3% ; consumer goods prices rose by 0.2% and service prices rose by 0.4% . On average from January to October , the national consumer price index rose by 0.3% year-on-year .

Find for me the bright spot. That’s right. There isn’t one.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.