Sentences with phrase «severest housing bust»

But since 2011, the metros with the severest housing bust have once again had the fastest population growth, and their lead over metros that had a moderate or mild bust has grown.

At the same time, Jed Kolko, chief economist at Trulia.com, reports that the job market is improving in ways that help housing, especially in «clobbered metros,» or cities that had the most severe housing busts such as Las Vegas and Phoenix.

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A recent paper by the International Monetary Fund warned that «housing busts and recessions preceded by larger run - ups in household debt tend to be more severe and protracted.»

The U.S. housing boom and subsequent bust might have been less severe had a set of macroprudential measures been in place at the time to limit the degree of leverage and speculative activity in the housing sector.

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.

Famed for studying almost three dozen bubbles and every bust, in September 2007, a month prior to the market peak that preceded the Global Financial Crisis, Grantham noted, profit margins would fall, the housing market would break, and the risk - premium all over the world would widen, «each with severe consequences».

This influx of additional paychecks has led more Americans to feel financially secure after weathering the most severe downturn — sparked by a housing bust — since the 1930s.