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The Skyscraper Index

Wednesday, 28th of January 2009

Whilst researching for our sister site, www.dubaipropertycrash.com, we were looking for interesting indicators to the dubai property market. In the process we remembered an out-of-the-box, less well-known marker of business cycles called the Skyscraper Index.
Could it be that the building of record breaking Skyscrapers could be used as a tool to predict the onset of [...]



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