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Re:Decoupling isn't phoney – The global trading system is st... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @10:21PM (#37331744)
> China is too big and too integrated into the world economics to fake or dismiss Chinese data

Chinese statistics are notoriously biased. There is a cottage industry of hedge funds using satellite imagery to correct their figures and trade on it.

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Re:Decoupling isn't phoney – The global trading system is st... by ETHisso2017 on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @10:30PM (#37331794)
Can you name some of these hedge funds?
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Re:Decoupling isn't phoney – The global trading system is st... by c_o_n_v_e_x on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:38AM (#37332527)
I know someone in the commodity business who uses satellite imagery for monitoring demand.
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