Home groan: Chinas housing-sector crisis

Published: Aug. 22, 2023, 10:17 a.m.

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Once again, fears are ripping through the industry\\u2014this time starting from a firm once thought too big to fail. In an economy so dependent on housebuilding, that will have wide-ranging consequences. We take a ride in one of the autonomous taxis that have flooded onto San Francisco\\u2019s streets (10:22). And crunching the numbers on Antarctica\\u2019s worrisome dearth of sea ice (19:40). 


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