The Return of the Skyscraper Index
In December of 1999, as a whimsical exercise to entertain stockbrokers during the Christmas lull, a Hong Kong-based property analyst named Andrew Lawrence created the Skyscraper Index, which sought to correlate the periodic naming of the world’s tallest buildings with spectacular market crashes.
That should sound familiar in November of 2008, with the pl…
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