Michael Hudson: How Debt-Driven Home Price Increases Shafted Homeowners
Michael Hudson debunks the myth that rising home prices are always a boon to homeowners.
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China’s Insanely Leveraged Housing Market Will Enter Its Secular Bear Market In 2017
Why China’s fabulously leveraged housing market may finally be on the verge of a long-anticipated implosion.
Read more...The Return of the Repressed Critique of Rentiers – Veblen in the 21st Century
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Read more...How the Housing Bubble is Remaking Australia’s Class Structure
How the housing bubble is restructuring Australian society. Are the same patterns emerging in your country?
Read more...How Housing Bubbles Destroy Productivity
More evidence that housing bubbles distort economic activity and act as a damper on growth.
Read more...Piketty’s Rising Share of Capital Income and the US Housing Market
The rising share of income accruing to housing is a key feature of the changing US income distribution. This column examines the determinants of this phenomenon. The rise occurred due to an increasing share of income accruing to owner-occupiers through imputed rent, it is concentrated in states that are constrained in terms of new housing supply, and it is closely associated with the long-run decline in real interest rates and inflation.
Read more...Cerberus Uses Private Equity Looting Strategy With Scandal-Ridden Steward Health Care Hospitals
How Cerberus is using a real estate looting strategy to salvage its purchase of Steward Health Care….at the expense of the operations, natch.
Read more...Ilargi: China Relies On Property Bubbles To Prop Up GDP
More concerned tea-leaf reading in the wake of a BIS report that sounded alarms about China’s debt growth.
Read more...DoJ Asks Deutsche Bank to Pay $14 Billion in Mortgage Settlement
The Obama Administration is trying to wrap up long-overdue mortgage-related cases, with Deutsche and possibly then other foreign banks.
Read more...US Commercial Real Estate Markets Are Sinking….Again….
US commercial real estate is starting to slide…a blip or a trend?
Read more...Are We Really Going to Sell Out the US Alliance for Property Prices? Australia’s China Choices
Australia faces choices in deciding what role China should play in Australia’s future. China is aggressively deploying “soft power” and outright offers of money (or threats to withhold funds) in attempting to sway Australian foreign policy both in the short-term, in pressing China’s case for control of the South China Sea, and in the longer-term, to reconsider its alliance with the United States.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Fear Spreads of a Housing Crash in Canada
This time, it wasn’t different either.
Read more...Wolf Richter: The “Housing Crisis” in San Francisco Strangles Demand
San Francisco housing bubble buckles under its own lopsidedness.
Read more...Milwaukee Riots Round-up of “Systemic Causes”
Milwaukee riots and disinvestment, segregated housing, and law enforcement for profit
Read more...John Helmer: The Collapse of Russian Real Estate Investment – Will Children and Chinese Tourists Save the Mall?
Why the plunge in Russian commercial real estate prices reveals the large role of money laundering.
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