Show Notes
What happens when the belief “sure everyone pays their mortgage” no longer holds as happened in 2007. Developers, then and now, are hugely reliant on bank funding in order to build apartments and houses in volume. After the Euro was adopted here in 2002, buckets off cash were available from European banks, especially German banks, and this cash found its way into Irish banks and then Irish developers. We see how all these big movements contributed to a crash in the world economy and depressio...
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