Ways China’s Latest GDP Claim Is . . . Odd

The National Bureau of Statistics today announced China’s real GDP growth at 4.5 percent for the third quarter and 4.6 percent for the first three quarters, both year-over-year changes. We don’t have enough information to check the third-quarter figure in isolation, but we have nearly enough information to check the first three quarters as a whole. And that growth figure is unlikely to be accurate. The post Ways China’s Latest GDP Claim Is . . . Odd appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.