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This should be huge news, but I expect you'll barely see a ripple. A company with $45b in debt is being foreclosed on. This should have all kinds of knock on effects.
However I fully expect it to just disappear.
It's been pretty much party line that they want this to happen for some time now. Pooh bear famously made this houses are for living in speech and directly wanted to knock out speculation. They do not want to be the West and define themselves by asset prices rising with no relationship to productivity. What the West would view as a major crisis then is the CCP's intended effect. They specifically targeted these highly leveraged developers with the theory (correct in my opinion) that the loans themselves are what are driving this "growth" and it's largely creating a situation of extraction that's pricing out regular Chinese from housing. Even making noises in that direction would seriously spook Western housing prices. Harris's solution was famously increasing lending if you remember.
I'm not sure I follow what you're saying, but it sounds like...
The CCP plan was:
Not really. What they identified was
This is the financialized model that pretty much drives the western economy. China rightfully saw this as undesirable and put limits on how much developers could borrow based on assets. And this is the result. Realize that many of these loans were foreign investments.
Sounds like profit to me, houses and buildings got built, rent and housing prices are going down. Sucks for the megacorp though.
...and the people who gave out the loans. That's where I'm expecting things to have an effect, much like 2008. A property company can crumble, but governments are much more protective of banks.
Just my speculation but this policy might be a significant contributing factor to the growth of Chinese economy.
Rising prices of assets lock up money that would otherwise be used for more productive investment.
Trading in Evergreen was closed already 1½ year ago, when the company entered liquidation.
So the delisting was inevitable and is not really significant.
Hong Kong High Court ordered the company to be wound up in January 2024.
Evergrande's shares had been under threat of delisting ever since because they were suspended from trading after the court order.
Wound up means liquidation.
But yes people and banks have absolutely lost money on this, but the ripple effect started already before the liquidation, it's been going on for at least 2 years now.
But for a country of 1.3 billion people, $45 billion is only $35 per capita, so not something that will likely destroy an economy as big as Chinas.
thanks. my first thought was that this had basically already happened.
Here's the thing, they can sweep this one under the rug but this is just a symptom. There will be more.
Ah, did the Chinese internet come back online? I heard it disconnected last Wednesday