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Earthquake won’t prompt looser monetary policy in China

Suggestions that China’s earthquake will affect economic growth, or prompt a loosening of monetary policy, are wide of the mark. In any case, with the People’s Bank more wary than ever of the dangers of attracting capital inflows, China’s supposedly tight monetary policy is already remarkably loose.

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