Is Canada the RBA’s leading indicator?

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As we know, Canadian house prices are rolling over or falling:

Same in Australia:

Authorities in both countries are making exactly the same sounds about household debt risks. On Friday, the head of the CHFC, Evan Siddall, sounded straight up like Phil Lowe: “We do have a debt problem. The more house price-financed debt you have, the more likely you are taxing your economic future.” Both have thriving broker channels that are under pressure for delivering years of “liar loans”. Both have had big Chinese housing investment inflows that have been hit by Chinese capital controls and local tax hikes.

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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.