Liu Jianguo, a 47-year-old teacher in the second-tier city of Guiyang, considers himself lucky. He lives in a sliver of China where the property market isn’t withering. “I have friends in the big cities,” he said. “They are aware they’re in a bad place for buying or selling real estate.” New home prices in China’s
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Regulations written by the Biden administration and those before it cost small businesses about $51,000 per employee, a gigantic cost that starves many firms of investments and raises the prices of consumer goods, according to an end-of-year analysis of the administrative state. Using data from outfits that track red tape, the Competitive Enterprise Institute said