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# April 17, 2017
- URL: https://www.thejanusobserver.com/april-17-2017/
- Published: 2017-04-18T12:00:56.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-25T20:26:53.000Z
- Author: Jonathan Janus
- Tags: Uncategorized, China, Finance, Real Estate, #Migrated-1792957904788, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-25 19:52

Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice

[FT - China faces a tough fight to escape its debt trap - Martin Wolf 4/11](https://www.ft.com/content/1c096f7e-1ddc-11e7-b7d3-163f5a7f229c?ref=thejanusobserver.com)

Real Estate

WSJ - Daily Shot: Households with Negative Equity 4/17

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/df/b1/dfb1dfbb-f8fb-4ec3-bf5b-87cf7344bdd1/content/images/2026/10/wsj_daily-shot_households-with-negative-equity_4-16-17-w-300.jpg)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/df/b1/dfb1dfbb-f8fb-4ec3-bf5b-87cf7344bdd1/content/images/2026/10/wsj%5Fdaily-shot%5Fhouseholds-with-negative-equity%5F4-16-17.jpg?ref=thejanusobserver.com)

Finance 

[NYT - Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined - Landon Thomas Jr. 4/14](https://nyti.ms/2p3P9df?ref=thejanusobserver.com)

- "In the last three calendar years, investors sank $823 billion into Vanguard funds, the company says. The scale of that inflow becomes clear when it is compared with the rest of the mutual fund industry - more than 4,000 firms in total. All of them combined took in just a net $97 billion during that period, Morningstar data shows. Vanguard, in other words, scooped up about 8.5 times as much money as all of its competitors."