«This translates into $ 1.25 trillion
less housing wealth than expected nationally over the coming three years.»
Not exact matches
«When
house prices declined, ushering in the global financial crisis, many households saw their
wealth shrink relative to their debt,» its authors observed, «and with
less income and more unemployment, found it harder to meet mortgage payments.»
Baby boomers have most of the
wealth and the
housing, so «millennials are doing
less well than their parents at the same age.»
While income from pensions and individual savings programs designed to provide retirement incomes are obvious inclusions, the appropriate way to treat
housing and other forms of non-pension
wealth is
less obvious.
What's gotten a lot
less attention is the huge slide in
wealth that started well before the
housing market cratered in 2007.
Overall the result would be that households would own a little
less of the nation's
housing wealth and the financial sector, awash with money from quantitative easing, would take on a little more.
«To own one's own
house, or business, or the capital which produced one's retirement income extended freedom of choice, gave people a stake in the nation's
wealth, and required
less tax - payer's money to be spent on them.
A feature of the itinerary is the cruise through the famous Three Gorges on the Yangtze River, on the prestigious MV Century Paragon, and a visit to the
lesser - known gem of Pingyao, with its
wealth of historic courtyard
houses, shops and temples, surrounded by one of China's few intact Ming city walls.
The city also contains a
wealth of more modern, but no
less impressive, buildings; the Teatro Grande opera
house was built in honour of Napoleon Bonaparte, and this is reflected in the richly decorated interiors, whilst the Biblioteca Queriniana contains a number of rare manuscripts, including some early works by Dante.
Since home equity is a major source of
wealth for most owners, sharply lower
house values make owners feel
less wealthy and therefore
less likely to spend in general and on improvements in particular.