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This week's number 8.3 million. That's how many people are on China's personal debt delinquency

blacklist, meaning they can't purchase luxury items such as high-speed train

tickets or nice hotel rooms. Ed, it's not true that China doesn't have free speech as no one says so ever. Get it add? A little geopolitical humor there. Yeah, it's a little geopolitical humor there.

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