We can only hope that the collective global political leadership will exercise wisdom in dealing with these geopolitical issues. This time the real-estate-bubble threat is more global than is often realised. It has become the symptom in many countries across the world that, during this long period of low interest rates, they have developed similar problems in real estate.
As market pressures on such nations increase, investors begin to worry more about risk exposure. Currencies are trading down in the U.S. and several other such economies, including our own, followed by withdrawals from equity and bond markets.