How Chinese Real Estate Became the Biggest Bubble in History
The episode explores the global housing affordability crisis through the lens of Mike Bird’s book The Land Trap, focusing on China’s reliance on land sales to finance local governments and the resulting speculative real estate bubble. The conversation unpacks how housing has become both
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