Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "CNBC International" channel.

  1. It varies from city to city
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  2. To add: Real estate is the only Chinese industry that doesn't have state-backed actors with unfair advantages, meaning housing receives most speculators.
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  3. I'd bet Nikola is in someone's ESG portfolio too.....
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  4. Happens all the time in China @Trgn 
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  5. You may be doing neither, however.
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  6. Who is we?
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  7. That's one of the reasons Chinese buildings are trash, yes @texaswunderkind 
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  8. This is our business
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  9. That mostly has to do with Quebec's really weird zoning laws.
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  10. You seem to think the way up doesn't cause as many problems as the way down
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  11. 3:20 Correction: Most of the leases are for under 70 years, but it varies from city to city, from year to year, and what it's being zoned for.
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  12. That just makes it worse.
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  13. Tell that to your landlord who has kids to feed and has to deal with deadbeats and drug dealers.
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  14. That means nothing
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  15. So?
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  16. I'm surprised they haven't removed this video yet
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  17. That's silly. Most of these houses were tofu dregs, built just for the pyramid scheme aspect. That's why you see so many people who own several homes which were unfinished. Also, they were often paying 5 times what Americans were paying relative to wages.
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  18. She would get arrested in China. And the gold bars were reported by other sources
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  19. Artificial demand
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  20. Wood isn't heavy enough. Even an idiot would see it's not gold @Halcon_Sierreno 
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  21. Holding a mortgage is not the same as owning the house. The bank doesn't control/maintain the house.
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  22. Vhut?
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  23. Quebec is much of Canada, not all of Canada
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  24. The gold bars to hide falling prices is new, started a couple months ago and is still going on.
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  25. Some of these are barely recognizeable as buildings because they were part of tort scams. Some judges ordered compensation from developers to homeowners according to how many stories their house had and thus people started buying land ahead of the developers with skeleton structures that technically had several "stories" to extort compensation. Also, most of the buildings are only built well enough to be sold. They fall apart after a year or two. Videos circulated of construction workers diluting concrete with old glass bottles
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  26. @leezhieng  I imagine in some places, but the thing is the original leases sold when real estate was privatized are just now expiring in most places
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  27. Their main source of revenue was always money laundering. Now that there's no cheap capital to rip off I wonder how they're doing.
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  28. Take your lithium and pick up a Great Courses series on the markets.
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  29. Not if you have any idea what you're talking about. Anything can be a Ponzi scheme and people who exhibit rent-seeking behavior like Ponzi schemes so rental homes are often the source of Ponzi schemes
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  30. The numbers are artificially inflated because of pyramid schemes and restrictions on pyramid schemes that lead to many couples getting legally divorced so they could buy more housing
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