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Colyapi lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the United States.

Has an engineering background and works as a metal fabricator while advancing economic knowledge during these turbulent times.

Specializes in custom problem solving and analytics, and can be heard more often at shadetreeeconomist.wordpress.com

• Is China on final approach to an economic crisis?

  By colyapi on February 13, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  January’s PMI data for China’s manufacturing sector, as released by Markit Economics and HSBC, showed a marked decline in production activity. More disturbing, however, is their analysis on the individual sectors of the manufacturing economy.  According to the report, firms… Read More ›

• China’s commodity subsidising problems are only getting worse

  By colyapi on January 3, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Bloomberg recently reported that China, in order to aid its own cotton farmers by supporting cotton prices, has been buying up excess production into government stockpiles. The world’s biggest producer and user of cotton will have 12.7 million metric tons… Read More ›

• Economic motivation behind China’s dam building

  By colyapi on June 1, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  The Chinese government has given preliminary environmental approval for construction of what would eventually be the country’s largest hydroelectric dam. The project, on the Dadu river in the southwestern province of Sichuan, is expected to take 10 years to construct… Read More ›

• Easing Chinese inflation helps to mask monetary problems

  By colyapi on May 3, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  Recently, MarketWatch reported that CPI and PPI information were released for the month of March for all of China. According to official data, the consumer price index showed that prices only grew 2.1% year on year, while the producer price… Read More ›

• China’s money supply not misinterpreted – China doesn’t understand

  By colyapi on March 19, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  The Chinese news site People’s Daily Online recently posted an article entitled China’s money supply should not be misinterpreted defending the money printing tendencies of the Chinese government. The author, Niu Wenxin, attempts to make a case as to why… Read More ›

• The danger of Chinese overproduction

  By colyapi on January 8, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Coal, iron ore, steel, cotton, clothing, heavy equipment, ship-building, solar cells, LEDs, and property. All of these commodities at one point or another in the last year have been a hot topic due to overstocks caused by government-influenced overproduction. Falling… Read More ›