The sheer size of the numbers is simply mind-boggling: 12 American companies have a market value of $30 trillion? Note that the U.S. GDP is about $30.8 trillion in nominal terms for 2025, according to IMF forecasts. There are only so many trillions of dollars that can disappear from investors’ portfolios before a recession is …
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China is the leading shadow lender to the Developed Economies
A report released Tuesday, November 18, 2025, by the AidData research arm of the University of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, comes to the startling conclusion that the United States is the largest recipient of loans from China. The report, titled “Chasing China: Learning to Play by Beijing’s Global Lending Rules“, found that 1,193 …