content: The Chinese government is currently paying factories to keep workers employed.  Not for production, employment.  How is their government paying for this?  They're printing money, lots of it.  In about 3 months you'll see china's credit rating take a hit, the Chinese credit market call in their debts, the state will then take over their recently open (to the commoner) stock exchange, and their market tumble.     The pink slips will go out to millions of formerly employed workers, who will then be promptly executed by the state for marching in the streets because their job went away, and so did the money they dumped into junk bonds. Isn't communism great.