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Financial openness changes the transmission channel: the same US shock can ease or deepen the GDP effect depending on inequality and market exposure. Related Articles:

 One US rate shock produces very different GDP losses across foreign economies, with emerging markets showing the sharpest delayed decline. Related Articles:

Dependency becomes strategic risk when product concentration overlaps with political distance, instability and trade restrictions.

China is not one supplier among many.

Large energy shocks do not simply produce larger effects; they bend the inflation response upward and make pass-through more persistent.

Tariffs become stagflationary when the shock passes through production networks, prices, output, and consumption at once.

China’s property downturn is no longer a normal cycle; the fall in real estate investment now resembles the early stage of a long post-bubble adjustment. Related Articles:

Political pressure can lower rates and lift growth briefly, but inflation and inflation expectations rise. 

Longer closure scenarios keep oil prices elevated for longer, making the speed of reopening the central inflation variable.