1. China’s mix of tight state banking controls and freewheeling consumer-finance businesses is showing its social and economic strains. There’s the recent grassroots boycott on mortgage payments to protest big, over-leveraged developers that sold homes and haven’t finished them. But before that, in May, an alleged multibillion-dollar bank scam triggered…
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