Reminds me of when I bought my first BMW... later I was lamenting that I didn't buy Microsoft stock with the money.
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I'm a Gen-Xer and I can tell you that growing up in So. Cal there were a lot of guys dropping out of high school or not going to college so they could go straight to work and buy cars and put a bunch of plastic lights from China on them...it's not just a China problem.
Imagine buying a $12k subaru sedan and spending $20k in lights and seat covers! That's the American way!
china is the next world economic super power, something that will take one or two decades to accomplish. i dont see a great depression in china in the short or mid term because they have some many cash in hand (biggest reserve) that they can pump their economy if the rest of the world became sluggish. moreover, they have comparative advantage against japan, eu and us, since their currency is undervalued and their wages are just a fraction of the average in developed economies. this means that they will continue to receive capital inflows (investment) which will add to their economic boom. as far as their stock market is concerned, i believe it is really about enduring huge volatility and epic selloff along the way. that is not to say they wont get 50% corrections in the future, which would be amplified the magnitude of easy money poured into the stock market but as soon as the market cleanses itself up, it will eventually resume the uptrend based on fundamentals. obviously, along the way, many investors will lose their shirt but that always have been the history of stock exchanges around the globe.