«While China's total
debt growth slowed notably in 2017 with a drop in the non-financial corporate debt - to - GDP ratio largely offset by rising household and financial sector debt,» the group said.
Just as the period
of debt growth pushed asset prices up, so the period of debt deflation will push asset prices down.
«With interest rates expected to rise further and housing regulations tightening at the federal and provincial level, the peak
in debt growth could very well be behind us,» Nye wrote in a report.
Any significant and sustained divergence between
total debt growth and total production growth is in itself the sign of an imbalance and any self - respecting economist would want to understand the origin and cause of such imbalance.
An aging population like ours should have a dampening effect
on debt growth because, generally, people borrow more in their youth, and pay down those debts and save more as they near retirement.
The combined effect of this uncertainty overhang — from global trade tensions to
domestic debt growth to tax law changes to interprovincial disputes over east - west pipeline access — has weighed on Canadian investment activity.
The increase in average debt spanned the country, although Saskatchewan reported a slight dip on a quarterly basis and Alberta recorded a decreased
annual debt growth.
This process leads to sharply rising corporate profits initially, and such a profit rise creates a stock market bubble, which eventually crashes because one
day debt growth slows down.
This begs the following question: how fast can personal consumption grow if
new debt growth slows or bears a higher interest burden or credit losses escalate?
When combined with the industry's lowest payout ratio and one of the strongest balance sheets (ensuring plentiful access to low
cost debt growth capital), STORE's dividend appears to be on very solid ground, even despite its rather limited dividend track record.
More recently, in August, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that China's
rapid debt growth could lead to another financial crisis.
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Canadian households were already stretched before the holidays, with the pace of
debt growth far outstripping wages over the last decade or so.
I would say that in real estate, while values are high, we are seeing some tightening of lending standards and
less debt growth associated with that rise in commercial real estate prices.
Godley in 2006 published a paper titled Debt and Lending: A Cri de Coeur where he demonstrated the US economy's dependence
on debt growth.
The combined effect of this uncertainty overhang — from global trade tensions to
domestic debt growth to tax law changes to interprovincial disputes over east - west pipeline access — has weighed on Canadian investment activity.
Still, Canadian provincial and federal governments have been busy concocting plans to cut their deficits (which only slows the rate
of debt growth) and ultimately start to pay down some of the debt itself.
The exception would be if the housing market rebounds and it leads to acceleration
in debt growth, in which case the Bank of Canada could be forced to raise interest rates sooner or the government could tighten mortgage lending rules further.
Some analysts said the fact this week's debt - ratio reading was slightly lower than the previous number could suggest Canada's
debt growth may have turned a corner.
One important point to make is that
debt growth is VASTLY outpacing GDP growth.
After both previous major crises — when private and public debt levels were relatively high — slower
debt growth, selective debt re-structuring and a long period of reflation have been the solution.
Debt growth to date «went into property - related assets.»
If GDP growth levels come in much below 6 or 7 %, there is a chance that
debt growth is not excessive.
By CBO's estimate, making Social Security solvent would substantially slow
debt growth, leading it to rise to 111 percent of GDP after three decades rather than 150 percent.
Currently, I am trying my best control
my debts growth.
Debt growth would have slowed, and securitization, which hates having an inverted or flat yield curve, would have slowed as well.
By paying down the card with the highest interest rate first, you slow down
your debt growth due to the interest saved, which can help pay down other balances faster, thus improving your credit utilization ratio.
This slows down
your debt growth due to the interest saved.
This makes
the debt growths to be 300 % and not 30000 % as Muro tries to imply with his graph.
Bear markets are invariably preceded by excess in the economy — over investment, high levels of
debt growth, high levels of inflation and tight monetary conditions — and excess in the share market in the form of overvaluation and investor euphoria.
Meanwhile,
debt growth has slowed to its slowest in a decade — showing that balance sheets are improving «without the painful deleveraging that has occurred south of the border.»