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Will the global economy implode in 2016?
We're hosed - I have stocked up on canned goods
My private security guards will shoot the paupers
We'll be good or at least coast along
I have no earthly clue
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Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

vyelkin posted:

It's not just the UK, Canada and Australia are also inflating housing bubbles. I don't know a lot about the Australian case but in Canada it's essentially being done to allow debt-laden consumers to continue spending even while underwater because there's nothing else driving any economic growth at all.

See: the related thread. With oil prices cratering Canada's last major industry is housing. Coupled with Canadians saddled with tremendous mortgage debt backed by a federal mortgage agency and, well, you Americans know how well that goes.

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