BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Shanghai BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20000101T000000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:CST TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260724T221750Z - 6734@iZuf69e0i0z4ibdboqb33jZ DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20260731T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20260731T140000 CREATED:20260724T221750Z DESCRIPTION:Broken Home-Ownership Dreams: Why Some Have Many & Others Can Never Buy A House\nIncludes Pre-Club Vocabulary List（含课前词汇表） Eve ryone who joins this club will receive a special vocabulary guide before t he session\, explaining the difficult economic\, financial and housing ter ms we’ll use. So you don’t need to know anything about economics to ta ke part in a genuinely deep conversation. For generations\, owning a home was one of the clearest symbols of financial stability and adulthood. In t he US\, millions of ordinary people once believed that if they worked\, sa ved and planned carefully\, buying a house was a realistic goal. Today\, f or many younger people\, that same dream can feel impossibly far away. Wha t changed? Did houses simply become too expensive\, or did wages\, interes t rates\, government policy\, investment and the wider economy fundamental ly change the rules of the game? Hosted by Damon\, a university professor in the US\, this discussion will explore the growing generational wealth a nd housing gap — and then take the conversation beyond America. How does the US compare with China\, where attitudes toward property\, family weal th and homeownership can be very different? Why did previous generations o ften find it easier to buy? Who benefits when property prices keep rising\ , and who gets locked out? And is today's situation a temporary crisis\, o r are we entering a world in which homeownership is no longer a realistic expectation for everyone? With the vocabulary guide giving everyone the to ols to follow along\, this will be an accessible but serious dive into hou sing\, inequality\, economics and one of the biggest financial questions f acing our generation. 每位参加这场活动的人，都会在活动前 收到一份特别词汇指南，里面会解释我们会用到的经济 、金融和住房相关难词。所以就算你完全不了解经济学 ，也可以参与一场真正有深度的讨论。 对好几代人来说 ，拥有一套房子曾经是财务稳定和成年生活很明确的象 征之一。在美国，曾经有数百万普通人相信，只要努力 工作、认真存钱、好好规划，买房就是一个现实可达的 目标。可到了今天，对很多年轻人来说，同样的梦想却 显得遥不可及。到底发生了什么？是房子单纯变得太贵 了，还是工资、利率、政府政策、投资行为和整体经济 环境，从根本上改变了这场游戏的规则？ 这场讨论将由 Damon [...] DTSTAMP:20260724T221750Z LOCATION:Popcorn Online SUMMARY:Broken Home-Ownership Dreams: Why Some Have Many & Others Can Never Buy A House END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR