How Property Booms Eat Our Economic Future

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This October, U.S. housing sales hit their highest level since 2006. China’s residential real-estate investment was up 14% relative to the same month last year. Around the world, many housing markets have shrugged off a colossal economic slump, helped by low interest rates. In the short term, such investment is a boost to economic activity in a year where headline figures have collapsed. […] The fact that housing booms can be a longer-term risk to financial stability is well known, but a growing…

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