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What REALLY causes house prices to rise? After debunking the standard “population growth” argument, I show that the real motive force for rising house prices is accelerating mortgage debt: for house prices to rise, mortgage debt must not merely increase, but increase more rapidly over time. That requires ever rising mortgage debt compared to income, ...

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What REALLY causes house prices to rise? After debunking the standard “population growth” argument, I show that the real motive force for rising house prices is accelerating mortgage debt: for house prices to rise, mortgage debt must not merely increase, but increase more rapidly over time. That requires ever rising mortgage debt compared to income, which of course is impossible. That’s why house price bubbles always burst, and the Australian bubble is finally bursting now.


Steve Keen
Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian-born, British-based economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and François Quesnay.

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