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Lehman to Evergrande: The long shadow of real estate-led economic crises

Karl Marx (1818-1883), the German-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, and revolutionary socialist, is said to have remarked, “History repeats itself. The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” He forgot to add that it is equally ap
Lehman to Evergrande: The long shadow of real estate-led economic crises Oct 05, 2023

The 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the 1929 Great Depression. Its roots can be traced back almost two decades to a US legislation passed to encourage financing for affordable housing. It sparked a multi-decade financial bubble that quickly devolved into banks and financial institutions selling predatory financial products to low-income, low-information homebuyers without the income or means to pay those mortgages, packaging and down-selling these poor-quality credit loans as securitised m
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