Noted economist and author Richard Duncan said that, faced with sluggish global growth and a tapped out U.S. consumer, there’s little hope that China can keep its factory-geared economy in motion much longer.
“China has followed an export-led growth model for the last 25 years, and it has just hit a brick wall when the U.S. economy went into crisis,” Bangkok-based Duncan said in an interview with MarketWatch.
Duncan is the former London-based head of global investment strategy at ABN Amro. In 2003 he authored “The Dollar Crisis,” which warned that imbalances in global trade would lead to a meltdown of the financial system.
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