#macroprudential — Public Fediverse posts
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Why are houses unaffordable from London to Sydney?
It’s not just “supply & demand” — it’s the rocket fuel of bank-created mortgage credit.
Steve Keen uses long-run BIS data to show how real house prices were flat for a century, then exploded after the 1980s when banks unleashed mortgage lending. The real driver? Not the level of debt, but the change in the change of mortgage debt — the credit impulse.#HousingCrisis #PrivateDebt #CreditBubble #SteveKeen #Economics #HousePrices #DebtDynamics #Macroprudential #Inequality #PropertyBubble