Household savings rates can be as high as 50% of income (by
comparison in the US it’s perhaps 5% or so) and saving and or investment
has in recent years been 40-50% of the entire Chinese economy. And the
thing is, those low interest rates paid to Chinese savers help in making
the savings rate that
high.
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So, because of this, China is really suffering on an individual family level because of the stock market crash. If you had 50% of your income invested in the STock market or other instruments and the market crashed like this, you might be really upset for a long time. So, the long term potential consequences of what is happening in China are unknown but possibly more understandable given this one fact about families there.
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