Chinese Consumer Confidence and China's Economy in 2015

It's time once again to graze into the crystal ball. Across the region, 2014 has been a year of economic anxiety and political fragility. A consumption tax hike that threatens to derail Abenomics, Japan's fading policy designed to reinvigorate that economy. Protests in Hong Kong. Massive street demonstrations in Pakistan. A military coup in Thailand. A ferry disaster in Korea that triggered national mourning and curtailed advertising spend there. But the biggest source of uncertainty has been th...