Atif Mian and others, writing in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, identified the reasons behind a decline in household spending because of
changes in housing wealth.
In contrast, the average owner in Louisiana had little
change in their housing wealth during 2017, given much lower prices and modest price growth.»
Not exact matches
One of the most vivid illustrations of the difference
wealth makes
in anticipating the
changes under way
in a warming world was the statement of Anne van der Molen
in the Netherlands, who lives
in a $ 420,000 amphibious
house in a river floodplain.
These
changes in market structure to favor the few were accomplished by various means: lack of oversight leading to concentration of market power through mergers and acquisitions, outright government subsidies to industry
in various forms, including explicit subsidies to the equities and
housing markets (among others) by the Federal Reserve to create a trickle down «
wealth effect»
in those markets,
changes in the tax structure which increase the concentration of
wealth, etc..
Any
changes to the mortgage interest deduction now or
in the future could threaten recent progress toward stabilizing the
housing market, critically erode home prices and values, destroy middle - class
wealth accumulation and hurt economic growth.