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A comment on The Chinese Government Likely Borrowed More than the US in 2017. Parent comment

Re:The Chinese Government Likely Borrowed More than the US i... by vkou on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:53PM (#17542770)
Anybody who has actually been to China in 1998, 2008, and 2018 would.
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Re:The Chinese Government Likely Borrowed More than the US i... by gruez on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:35PM (#17543131)
All that will tell you is "china grew a lot". It won't tell you whether they grew 10%/year or 8%/year.
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Re:The Chinese Government Likely Borrowed More than the US i... by vkou on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:59PM (#17543414)
No, but it'll pretty definitively tell you that they are not 10x off published GDP numbers.
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