Poloz's press conference followed the release of the central bank's December Financial System Review, which
concluded that a record
household debt burden makes Canada vulnerable to a housing crash, although policy makers see little reason to think that will happen.
Atif Mian, an economics professor at Princeton, and Amir Sufi, a professor of finance at the University of Chicago,
conclude that economic disasters are «almost always» preceded by a large increase in
household debt.