Investors Pulling Back — What Happens to Housing Now?

Bill McBride at calculatedriskblog.com (a must read in the economics blogosphere) has been doing some fantastic posts on the abrupt pull-back by investors in the U.S. housing market. They were very aggressively buying homes in depressed markets from 2010 to 2012 thanks to their relative wealth and ability to achieve good credit, but the excitement is now …

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The Federal Reserve and Wealth Inequality

The Federal Reserve has a well-defined dual-mandate: stabilize prices and maximize employment. However, in trying to achieve these objectives, the Fed can inadvertently favor some segments of the population more than others. This was indeed the case from the perspective of households’ net worth position during the Great Recession. We have already highlighted the highly unequal distribution …

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