Updated from 6:59 a.m. EDT
Have you noticed what's going on in the Chinese stock market lately? Let me bring you up to speed in case you've missed it. The stock markets in the Far East have been crashing in a manner that makes the infamous Black Monday on Wall Street look like a walk in the park. The Shanghai Composite Index is down more than 50% from its peak of 6,092.06 points in October, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index has fallen more than 20%.
These large drops in the Chinese stock markets are eerily reminiscent of the Nasdaq crash of 2000. Valuations in China spun out of control as investors bid up everything in anticipation of the Beijing Olympic Games, causing an unsustainable bubble. Unfortunately, the bulls on China were a bit overly optimistic, and the bears faded the "Olympic Trade" and sold with force.
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