“Rogoff [Kenneth Rogoff] and Yang [Yuanchen Yang] also show both that housing prices in China are extremely high relative to incomes and that the real estate sector has become an incredibly large share of China's economy. None of this looks sustainable, which is why many observers worry that the debt problems of the giant property developer Evergrande are just the leading edge of a broader economic crisis.”
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