David Kuo

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346 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3 Sep

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Business Daily · Taking Stock: A slower China and a durian glut · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

You've got to be very careful not to sit under a durian tree because it can do you serious damage if it falls on your head.

You need a helmet on.

Well, you do need a helmet on.

I mean, these things weigh about between one and two kilos.

And what happened was that there was this over-harvesting of durians just because the temperature was right.

And because there was this oversupply, durian prices fell to about zero to $6 a kilo.

Normally they retail for about $30 a kilo.

So that is what you would expect to pay because there was so much of this stuff.

And because the shelf life is only about a couple of days, if they couldn't sell them at $6, they just literally gave them away and people could have free durian.

So that was a hero.

The problem, Will, was that

Back in about 2019, the people in China suddenly developed a taste for durian.

And so there was this sudden increase in the number of farms in Malaysia that was growing durian trees.

And it takes about seven years for this to mature.

And so when we do have an oversupply, this is what happens.

The durian prices will just drop to about somewhere between zero and six dollars per

per kilo.

And so it's great for people who love it, but for people who hate it, wow.

It was likened by somebody to eating strawberries and cream in a public laboratory.

Well, we did in fact have a moratorium on data centers here in Singapore.

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