“Builders want extensions on their accounts and ask for better margins. Buyers are down by 50% to 60%. Employees are scared and do not want to work. Everything we do takes twice as long.”
“I want these f**kers to collapse and their CEOs thrown into a Mexican jail for having borrowed in dollars. I want shareholders and bondholders to pay the price, not the people. Let them eat their dollar-bonds.”
“First sector to be afflicted by the virus crisis and, unlike other crises, likely the last to recover from it.” And these economies are still incredibly fragile, even eight years after the last crisis.