• nekandro@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    How much money, exactly, do you think is in the US property market?

    How much money, specifically, from the middle class?

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      10 months ago

      The important figure isn’t the total, but the fraction of GDP that goes into real estate, which is disproportionate in the case of China, for the reasons I mentioned, and more (another major one being the land leased by local governments to serve as their de facto revenue stream)