US Home prices are rising at their fastest pace in history...

fueling concern that a new real estate bubble has formed.

So far, nothing has been done, despite protest from some Fed officials like Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren, who recently argued that a “boom and bust cycle” in real estate is incompatible with financial stability.

Former Federal Reserve Vice-Chairman Donald Kohn made a similar point in a 2017 speech that Washington regulators “need the power to put limits on loan-to-value and debt-to-income measures, when loosening standards, perhaps occurring outside the banking system, threaten financial and economic stability.”

MarketWatch 21 July 2021

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/washington-might-have-to-go-to-war-to-fight-a-housing-bubble-does-it-have-the-tools-to-win-11626881606


Vi har en hushållssektor som är mer räntekänslig än den någonsin varit tidigare, säger Stefan Ingves juli 2021

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2021/07/vi-har-en-hushallssektor-som-ar-mer.html


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