F2F Class Notes (Jacob)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-08/sizing-up-china-s-debt-bubble-bloomberg-economics

Vocabulary

syllable – the sound made by several letters together

Balloon = bubble (economic problem)

Real estate – all housing and buildings

stagnation – no growth
eg. Japan’s economy is currently very stagnate.

writer = author 

Protest – to go and argue against something

appreciate – to increase in value (money, housing, items)
depreciate – to decrease in value (money, housing, items)

domestic – inside China (or the country being discussed)
eg. China wants to keep the domestic housing price the same.

Grammar

We don’t want the balloon to pop = economic crisis 

The author wrote

The government

Middle and upper class

I agree a little bit about the authors/writers opinion

Pronunciation

writer [right-ter]