World shares tumble as China Evergrande contagion fears spread

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Using the phrase "contagion fears" during a pandemic seems misguided.

It's not misguided, but it is distracting.

Many news headlines are using it.

It'd be interesting to check if it's a normal wording or mass psychology or mass psychology gone wrong where they think they are being subtle or A/B testing that is working.

It's normal wording in financial market discourse. You can look up coverage of Archegos, Lehmann/08 financial crisis, 2015 Chinese market crash etc for other situations where it was used heavily to describe either events of the time or highlight possible outcomes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI

Media follow a script.

does china still play with currency manipulation? maybe that is what is happening now

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