In both these situations, if people stop buying homes because they're worried that they won't be delivered to them, that will cause the property sector to further deteriorate. If there is a run on small banks in the country, where people no longer trust in depositing their money, this can really lead to problems. In hannan, we're only talking about six very small banks. You can imagine if this spread to ten more here or 20 more there,. I think it's bound to be an interesting couple of months.
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