response to tyoung
I read the article on the "asset economy" on the website you pointed out. You are right it was an excellent article.
The key point I thought in the article was
" For global property markets, the balance of risks is now shifting. With housing markets in about two-thirds of the world either in or close to a bubble, the impacts of the coming normalization of monetary policy cannot be taken lightly. Courtesy of property-induced wealth effects, the global economy was neatly able to sidestep the potentially devastating aftershocks of a burst equity bubble. As the liquidity cycle now turns, the odds are that the world will not be so fortunate the next time a bubble bursts."
Very few commentators have been pointing to the crucial fact that we didn't have a recession in 2001 after the equity bubble burst and that it was merely transferred to a housing bubble. But at some stage the chickens will come home to roost. The question is when it happens will there be a banking crisis with many people defaulting on their debts.