Too few people understand how government debt sends home prices higher.
The more money the government needs, the more bonds the BOC has to purchase.
This drives down rates across the board — from the government’s rate to mortgage rates.
This does two things.
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2/ One: It makes it cheaper to borrow more money. Traditions economics says this lowers the cost of servicing, but in environments where prices are rising, it just allows them to grow faster.
Traditional analysis does not apply when the state creates a non-market environment.
3/ Two: it lowers fixed income investments, and crowds investors out of the market.
If an institution had a billion to lend to the gov for 2%, and that falls to 1%, they look elsewhere. They don’t want to lose inflation.
bahaha. I know most journalists won't be specialized in this area, so most likely this housing story gets passed on.
Trudeau's housing plan that he mentioned to "help" cities involves using the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB).
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2. The Infrastructure Bank is a Crown corporation that was started by Morneau to get private investment for public infrastructure that generates revenues.
They tapped a US investment banker working for Bank of America and Merrill Lynch, to work as an advisor pro-bono...
3. You know? Because all investment bankers invest 6 months of their work time to advise a foreign country on the best way to help taxpayers for free.
Anyway, he also worked with Canadian pensions at the same time apparently.
Equity withdrawn from homes was around 2% of GDP in 2019.
Money laundering is estimated to be around 2-4% of GDP in Canada.
Either the Liberals used a housing crisis to pad GDP, or they didn't know, and aren't smart enough to be in office.
When does Adam Vaughan resign?
2./ Transparency International found. over the past decade, ~$35 billion in Greater Toronto property was bought with no idea who the corporate owners are due to a lack of public ownership data.
$25 billion was bought using cash from unregulated lenders without AML regulation.
3. Still, no action? Weird. International gangs made a casino too dangerous for a money laundering investigations? Weird.
I wonder how the federal government would respond to such allegations of corruption. Clearly they would do something!