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Again, why does Summers say absent the housing bubble the economy would stagnate, when investing in mac mansions is such a poor and unproductive use of capital?

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Advocates for excessive home prices also point out that construction has become a bigger part of the British Columbia economy, equating any effort to deflate Vancouver's housing bubble to act of economic sabotage.

The house - price bubble, combined with record levels of household debt, represent the biggest threat facing the Canadian economy; the sooner real - estate markets mellow and Canadians lower their debt burdens, the better.

That helped tip the economy into recession after the housing bubble burst in 2007, leading to a tsunami of foreclosures and delinquencies.

The Chinese economy charged ahead at an unsustainable 10.5 % pace in 2010, sparking concerns of rising inflation and the risk of speculative bubbles, particularly in the housing sector.

You will get around 225 slices of Jared's trademark wit, lateral thinking, and his no - holds - barred take on everything from China's economy to Canada's housing bubble, from Dodd - Frank to Donald Trump, and from trades of the century to dirtnaps of the century.

The simple model under - predicts consumer spending in the 1990s, probably because of wealth effects spun off by the housing bubble, and over predicts in this recovery, but tracks consumer spending — 70 percent of the US economy — pretty well.

Appointed in early 2008 just as the US housing bubble was popping, Carney took the helm in time for a financial crisis that brought the global economy to its knees.

If anything should be clear from the bubbles of recent years, the greatest risks are not when prices are depressed, the economy is weak, and investors are frightened, but rather when prices are elevated and an unendingly positive outlook for technology, or housing, or global growth, or private equity, or emerging markets, or commodities seems all but certain.

We can argue about that, but there's no denying that D - F was put in place precisely because under - regulated financial markets helped inflate the housing bubble which kinda blew up the economy.

The first is that the economy was stronger coming into the stock bubble than the housing bubble.

All that housing bubble fraud continues to erode an economy in which we pay about 150 % more for gas and fuel than we paid in 2003.

Canada's housing bubble is the economy's biggest risk — and its biggest driver.

Other than the recent housing bubble, real estate is a relatively safe asset class that appreciates along with inflation and the economy.

The Fed dropped interest rates to near - zero in an effort to jumpstart the economy after the housing bubble burst.

To explain, I point out that if the Fed had done nothing in response to the bust of 2000 - 2002 then there would have been a severe recession, but the economy would probably have made a full recovery by 2004 and there would have been no mortgage - credit / housing - investment bubble and therefore no 2007 - 2008 crisis.

As Adair Turner shows in his new book, Between Debt and the Devil, private sector debt soared as a share of GDP in most advanced economies after the 1980s, fuelling unproductive, debt financed household consumption, housing bubbles and wasteful financial speculation.

However, the Fed faces a challenge: it must deflate the housing bubble, contain inflation and yet does not want to throw the U.S. economy into depression.

At the time, the U.S. economy was being thrashed by the financial crisis and the bursting of the housing bubble.

By preventing a real estate bubble, this will hold down the economy's housing and commercial space - rental charges, thereby adding doubly to China's creation of a structural cost advantage over industrial economies that have turned into finance - capitalist economies dominated by the FIRE sectors rather than industry.

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Experts worry that China's property market may be heading into bubble territory as the economy's dependency on real estate reaches a level close to the housing peaks in the U.S. and Japan.

Las Vegas is a case study in the limits of the housing bubble but also the reflection of a new economy driven by a demand for lower price real estate.

To make things worse, Canada's economy has been hit hard by falling oil prices, and investors remain wary of a Canadian housing market that has shown signs of becoming a bubble, as well as rising consumer debt rates.

Richard: Great insight as always, and last time we talked about the commercial real estate bubble and we thought today we'd do a special focus on the millennial generation and how financial repression through repressed interest rates and quantitative easing has resulted in asset bubbles that ultimately have affected the millennial generation in terms of their values, how they look at the economy and life and the way they're conducting themselves in the economy: what they're facing in terms of the housing market and the job situation.

Last time we talked about the commercial real estate bubble and we thought today we'd do a special focus on the millennial generation and how financial repression through repressed interest rates and quantitative easing has resulted in asset bubbles that ultimately have affected the millennial generation in terms of their values, how they look at the economy and life and the way they're conducting themselves in the economy: what they're facing in terms of the housing market and the job situation.

To illustrate this, just take a look at how our economy has changed since financial institutions inflated asset prices in the housing market until the bubble burst in 2007.

Given the consistently good news we've seen from the housing market, it can be easy to forget just how much damage the bursting of the real estate bubble has wrought on the economy and the lives of average people across the country.

We know from history that bubbles are bad for the housing market, and for the economy as a whole.

Saving parts of the economy from the popping of each asset price bubble can leave, and make, the entire economy more prone to larger and potentially more - damaging price bubbles - such as the housing price bubble.

History has shown that bubbles are bad for the housing market, and bad for the economy as a whole.

Things like the gig economy, the London housing bubble and the social care crisis are contemporary issues requiring creative policy responses.

Banks therefore tend to allocate money to property and financial markets, skewing economies towards housing bubbles and the financial sector.

We've witnessed an education - spending bubble over the past two decades, as first a booming economy and then soaring housing values poured tons of dollars into public - school budgets.

The economy was running smoothly, so state legislators spent as if there were not going to be tech or housing bubbles looming in the next decade.

Instead of leaving rates high, because the general economy was not under that much threat, the Fed loosened down to unimaginable levels, mainly to force a bubble in US Housing, which would lead the economy out of the recession, which it did and then some.

This of course hasn't gone unnoticed by John Taylor, who has written a number of papers over the last year showing empirically that the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy during this period was an important catalyst of the housing bubble and therefore influential in the current problems the economy is experiencing.

A tiny bit like you perhaps, I look at history (the Great Depression; Japan since the early 1990s or so; the 1970s; the burst housing bubble of the late 80s in some parts of the country; banks having problems in the early 90s) and think the U.S. economy, and increasingly the world as a whole, is able to correct.

House prices go up and down, depending on if we're in a recession or in a bubble economy.

Recent data has shown that Chinaâ $ ™ s economy may be heating up too fast which could lead to an asset bubble in the real estate and housing markets.

By skyfinancial 2017-01-04T01:02:25 +00:00 August 22nd, 2013 Categories: Economy Tags: condo Market, household debts, Housing bubble, Housing Market, Mortgage, Mortgages

By skyfinancial 2017-01-04T01:02:28 +00:00 May 9th, 2012 Categories: Economy Tags: Canadian Economy, Canadian real estate, No housing bubble

As I return home to Canada, global economies it seems are still picking up the pieces following the dotcom bubble bust, 9/11, the great recession, the U.S. housing market collapse and the resulting credit crunch.

It is very hard to reflate bubbles — you can't build an economy on sectors that are credit impaired, which makes me think that the housing stimulus ideas will likely fail.

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«One thing we all should have learned from the Great Recession and the housing bubble is that consumers must police the economy at its transactional foundations and must have access to the knowledge and data they need to act responsibly in their own interest,» said Charles Tran, founder of CreditDonkey.com.

At the height of the housing bubble, residential construction and related activities accounted for more than a quarter of the economy in metro areas like Las Vegas and Orlando.

I think energy should have a higher place in the political agenda even more than Iraq and the state of the economy... which if you think about, both connect to energy, Iraq was invaded because of energy, and the economy is going bad, not just because of the housing bubble, but because of oil prices.

Even this recession, though longer and deeper than most due to the role of the housing bubble, credit crisis, and huge over-leveraging of the U.S. economy, will be temporary: as the imbalances are worked off, the economy will recover, and growth will eventually resume.

In other words, the U.S. housing bubble was caused in large part by the buildup of savings in emerging market economies, especially China, accumulated from their large trade surpluses.