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May 19, 2017 09:41 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/NbIPyJA5yQE/malthus-vs-money-launderers.html
Real estate bubbles lower the birth-rate
Shelter is a human necessity second only to food on Maslow's hierarchy of needs; but it's also an asset-class that is increasingly relied upon by the world's super-rich for money-laundering, rent-extraction and simple investment -- this creates a dilemma for governments, who are under pressure to ratchet up the cost of a fundamental human necessity in order to enrich a minority of wealthy land- and property-owners. (more…)
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