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Reading Michael Pettis: What Does an Evergrande Meltdown Mean for China? [Ep. 119]

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Introduction

Evergrande is the most indebted property developer in the world. It's on balance sheet liability some up to nearly 2% of China's annual GDP. This wouldn't be as much of a problem if Chinese developers, state-owned enterprises, local governments and even ordinary households did not all have excessively high debt levels. Because the Chinese economy has long been plagued by debt problems and moral hazard the situation will be much more difficult for regulators to sort out.

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