Arthur Hayes
speaker
1,864 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Arthur Hayes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Over time, inflation builds up and, you know, what an average person used to be able to afford on an average salary, they no longer can.
And, you know, pick your country.
The average first time home buyer is much older than they used to be.
Household formation is down.
People are having less kids.
It's all the same, simple, but the same thing.
We all believe that the government is supposed to save us.
Therefore, the government says, okay, great.
We don't want to raise taxes because that's very unpopular, regardless of whether democratic or not, in terms of how people express their opinion politically.
We're just going to print a bunch of money.
And if you don't own financial assets, then you're screwed, essentially.
And that compounds.
If you've been doing this since the end of World War II –
80 years ago, we get to this situation today where, you know, the average home buyer in the U.S.
is what, four years old?
Is the first home buyer something in that where it used to be, you know, the mid-20s in, you know, the 60s and 70s, at least in the United States context, is literally just a symptom of printed money.
Well, I think the underlying problem is that it's not all the government's fault is that nobody wants to take the hard medicine.
In the 1930s, and whether or not you think this was the correct thing, for a little bit of time after the Great Depression, which was a credit-fueled boom,
The thinking was, okay, let's let the amount of credit contract.
People lost their jobs.
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