In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Wolf Richter discuss:

• China's Warning Shot
  • The recent Treasury gambit is classic geopolitics
• Downdraft Risk
  • Will it be possible to avoid a crash in 2018?
• Real Estate Is Looking Vulnerable
  • Key markets are running out of buyers
• Rising Oil Prices
  • A major candidate for the pin to pop this bubble

Wednesday, the markets lurched in fear as China announced it was thinking of slowing/stopping future purchases of US Treasurys. Later, a Chinese spokesman declared the story "fake news". But was it? Or was this a deliberate geopolitcal chess move meant to deliver a stern warning to America?

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