WSJ Links Housing Crisis Duration and Economic Recovery
The Wall Street Journal maps the bond between the housing crisis and broader economic fortunes.
Lawrence Meyer, the seasoned economic forecaster and former Fed governor, says one of the most important differences between “people who are bearish on the economic outlook and those who are less bearish” is their prediction about home prices. Mr. Meyer is in the less-bearish camp. He sees a slowdown in the pace of home-price declines and expects the U.S. economy to be growing at better than a 2% pace by the fourth quarter, faster than many other forecasters.
Three things could prove Mr. Meyer and the like-minded wrong about their encouraging outlook: a sustained increase in the thriftiness of U.S. consumers, which would depress overall growth; a relapse of financial turbulence, which would do the same; and persistently steep declines in the price of houses.
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