Dad’s Army slams macroprudential

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The new commentator at Dad’s Army, Miranda Maxwell, takes on macroprudential todayand gives it a panning:

New Zealand’s experience with home loan limits is a cautionary tale.

There, loan-to-value ratio ‘speed limits’ were introduced in October 2013 and dictate that banks limit residential mortgage lending at a LVR greater than 80 per cent to no more than 10 per cent of the dollar value of their new housing lending flows.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.