The Bank of Canada’s latest research implies that home equity extraction has had only modest effects on consumer spending and GDP. Once we consider the total wealth effects, however, the significance of previous gains in house prices is much larger. The limited scope for a renewed period of rapid house price inflation implies that consumer spending and GDP growth will remain lower than in the recent past.
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