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Is Evergrande Really China’s Lehman Moment?

Is Evergrande Really China’s Lehman Moment?

FromCapitalisn't


Is Evergrande Really China’s Lehman Moment?

FromCapitalisn't

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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Oct 21, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In September China's second largest real-estate developer, Evergrande, missed an $83.5 million debt payment. Skeptics and bears on China have long said that its property market, which makes up some 30 percent of GDP, is over-leveraged and overheated. The recent news has people asking...are the bears right, and could this be China's Lehman Moment.

On this episode we look at two sides of that argument, first with one of the world's most renowned bears on China, Jim Chanos who is the found of Kynikos Associates, an investment advisor focused on short selling. Then we take the a different view with Zhiguo He, a financial economist at the University of Chicago and faculty director of BFI-China at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics.
Released:
Oct 21, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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