Papadimitriou, Dimitri B.; Chilcote, Edward; Zezza, Gennaro - 2015
Rising home prices and low interest rates have fueled the recent surge in mortgage borrowing and enabled consumers to … spend at high rates relative to their income. Low interest rates have outerbalanced. The growth in debt and acted to dampen … the growth in household debt-service burdens. As past Levy Institute strategic analyses have pointed out, these trends are …