China is in the midst of a property bubble fueled by a shadow banking system and local political corruption. The meeting of crises will, according to some of the biggest investors out there, result in a financial crisis at some time in the future. A new analysis from ANZ Research disputes that conclusion, arguing that large scale privatization, among other changes, will save the country. The ANZ Research note, which was authored by Li-Gang Liu, Hao Zhou, and Louis Lam, argues that debt levels at China’s local government institutions have been overblown, and there is less of a risk of…
China Needs Mass Privatization To Avoid Crisis
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