For students of history, the China stock market crash looks eerily familiar.
It's playing out much like the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929.
Although it rebounded 5.8% today (Thursday) thanks to more government intervention, the Shanghai Composite Index has shed 29% over the past month.
You've heard the stories about the 1929 stock market crash, how investors should have figured out that, when taxi drivers and shoe-shine boys hawked stock tips, the end was near.
The lesson we're supposed to have learned was that cheap margin - the debt that investors can use to finance stock purchases, when wielded by uneducated, blindly optimistic "plungers," can drive stocks up and up over a cliff into an abyss.
Too bad the Chinese never got that memo.
The falling Chinese stock market is a frightening spectacle, given that China has been a driving force behind global growth for decades.
America celebrates the July 4th holiday under the threat of homegrown terrorism while global financial markets face a trifecta of threats from Greece, Puerto Rico and China.
China's stock market is creating an ideal moment to invest, although if you ask any of the pundits out there, they'll quickly tell you otherwise.
But we know better.
The Chinese stock market bears are going to seize on the collapse in Chinese exports this month to no doubt embolden the case against investing in China.
But this just means it's an even better time to put some money in the Chinese stock market. Investors can't ignore the growth potential of China, and while everyone else is looking the other way, now is a good time to start buying.
Here's where you can begin investing in China today...
The planet's number two economy is growing more comfortable with its predominance on the world stage.
Despite attempts by the U.S. to dictate other nations' dealings with China, the Middle Kingdom has been establishing new economic and financial institutions to develop its global sway. And it's inviting the world to participate.
Meanwhile, America is staying away and warning others to do the same. But scores of leading nations are ignoring that advice and joining with China.
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The Chinese stock market has performed relatively well this year. But it's rushing headlong into an outpouring of China bears souring on the country's growth.
A number of other indicators - weak factory production, slowing car sales - have international investors questioning whether the so-called "Chinese Economic Miracle" is losing steam.
It hasn't, and Western analysts currently have these three stock picks wrong...
The Chinese stock market plunged today (Monday) after regulators imposed limits on margin trading.
You see, speculation has helped propel the Shanghai Composite Index about 60% since 2013's close.
Today's sell-off was prompted by fears that those speculators, who are trading on margin, would exit the market.
Here's what that means for U.S. markets...
