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Robert Z. Aliber is professor of international economics and finance emeritus at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. He is co-author of the latest edition of Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (2015).
China’s Ponzi Problem
The pandemic lockdown has triggered the collapse of the housing market in China.