But he insisted the socialist character of Cuba would be "irreversible" and accumulation of property would not be allowed.

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One holds that it is not such a bad thing that much of humanity is engaged in a feverish accumulation of property or that certain characters have accumulated an awful lot of it.

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There was massive inflation in asset prices, especially in commercial and residential property, and a hideous and dangerous explosion of the accumulation of debt: an analysis by McKinsey, which I've mentioned here many times before, shows that the aggregate of household, business, government and bank debt increased from less than 200% of GDP in 1987 to a record 500% of GDP in 2008, and hasn't really fallen since.

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