Article 2AK1J China's capital controls are working, and that's bursting the global real-estate bubble

China's capital controls are working, and that's bursting the global real-estate bubble

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Cory Doctorow
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More news on the Chinese crackdown on money-laundering and its impact on the global property bubble: the controls the Chinese government has put on "capital outflows" (taking money out of China) are actually working, and there's been a mass exodus of Chinese property buyers from the market, with many abandoning six-figure down payments because they can't smuggle enough money out of the country to make the installment payments. (more")

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