Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on December 01, 2023, 01:15:58 PM
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Oh thank you Mr Sunak
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67587236
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Where does the Ponzi bit come in?
Note: I don't think it's great that house prices are set to rise. I'm so glad I'm in the position of never needing to buy a house again and not having a mortgage. Young people who want to live in my city are being crucified over the costs.
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Where does the Ponzi bit come in?
Note: I don't think it's great that house prices are set to rise. I'm so glad I'm in the position of never needing to buy a house again and not having a mortgage. Young people who want to live in my city are being crucified over the costs.
If it's seen that house prices need to rise to create a good economy, you're aiming for a bubble.
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If it's seen that house prices need to rise to create a good economy
I don't think it is seen is it? You don't want people in a negative equity situation, but other than that I don't think anybody thinks house prices need to rise for a good economy.
, you're aiming for a bubble.
A bubble is not a Ponzi scheme.
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I don't think it is seen is it? You don't want people in a negative equity situation, but other than that I don't think anybody thinks house prices need to rise for a good economy.A bubble is not a Ponzi scheme.
Successive govts have used inflationary measures on housing to give people a feeling of economic wellbeing.
All Ponzi schemes are a subset of a bubble. Those seeking to benefit here are the govts who are stoking it.
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Successive govts have used inflationary measures on housing to give people a feeling of economic wellbeing.
All Ponzi schemes are a subset of a bubble. Those seeking to benefit here are the govts who are stoking it.
Well no. A Ponzi scheme is a fraud in which you offer an investment vehicle and you use the payments of later investors to pay the "profits" of the earlier investors instead of actually investing the money.
A bubble is simply a case where the price of some commodity gets unrealistically high. A bubble isn't a fraud in itself although it may offer opportunities for fraud.
The government is not operating the housing market as a Ponzi scheme. For a start, there is a real commodity being traded (houses). Secondly, we don't pay the government for our houses and then sell them back to the government. You could argue that the state pension is a government run Ponzi scheme but not the housing market.