Lehman Brothers was a mid-sized US Investment Bank when it collapsed on September 15, 2008. In the traumatic six months that followed, the global financial system skirted with meltdown and the collapse in global trade and activity was greater than that suffered after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Arguably, the global economy is still living with the scars. China Evergrande is one of the largest property developers in China and the most indebted in the world. Shouldering a debt burden of over $300 billion, the prospect of collapse is growing. According to a recent report in the New York…

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