Sarah Chaney Cambon

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542 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2017 last heard Feb 2023

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Worldwide Housing Price Stagnation Worries Economists · 28 Jan 2020 podcast

And so that has been kind of contributing to the slowdown in world economic growth. matched

And then there's also this connection between home price growth and how consumers are feeling. matched

So if I'm a homeowner and I see that the value of my home is growing slower or even declining, then I might feel less well off and spend less. matched

And then that also feeds into economic growth. matched

Since the last financial crisis about a decade ago, we've been in this period of really low interest rates. matched

And so a lot of wealthy investors would swoop in and buy properties in cities like London, Vancouver, Tokyo. matched

And so housing prices in those cities became synchronized. matched

Now that we're in this period of, you know, a global slowdown and a lot of these cities have been enacting property market regulations, we've seen that those housing markets have slowed in line with one another. matched

There are some different metrics that you can look at, one being household debt to GDP ratios. matched

And basically what's going on there is not seeing the same sort of signs of out-of-control credit growth that we saw before the last financial crisis. matched

Also, policymakers kind of have become more alert to the risks of housing bubbles and matched

since the last financial crisis and banks have made it more difficult to access mortgages. matched

So all of those factors kind of point to, hey, we're not exactly where we were 10 years ago. matched

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Thanks so much for having me. matched

WSJ Your Money Briefing · Americans' Spending Is Up, But Fears Persist · 1 Jul 2019 podcast

We look at all sorts of different wage metrics, and in a report released by the government on Friday, we saw that personal income, which is a measure of Americans' pre-tax earnings from wages, salaries, and investments, grew 0.5% in May.

from a month earlier, and that actually matched the strongest monthly gain so far this year.

So it shows that Americans are making more money.

In the first quarter, consumer spending, which is a major part of the U.S.

economy, it accounts for more than two-thirds of economic output.

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