China Evergrande Soared on the Property Boom. Here's Why It Crashed.
Blame for the property developer’s downfall has been placed on Chinese lending policies, but poor corporate oversight was hiding in plain sight.
Source: nytimes.com
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Blame for the property developer’s downfall has been placed on Chinese lending policies, but poor corporate oversight was hiding in plain sight.
China is bleeding cash. Investors, both domestic and foreign, are bailing out of the country.
Tens of millions of homes lie vacant across China following the country’s credit-fuelled construction boom.
China has too much property, and there is no solution short of either short-term crisis or long-term catastrophe, or perhaps both.
China's property sector, along with related industries, contributes as much as 30% to the country's GDP.