Despite Bank Of Canada Hubris, Existing Home Sales Crash In May

The Bank of Canada is stuck between the rock of a housing bubble (textbook-based trickle-down confidence-inspiration) and a hard place of a housing bubble (total lack of affordability) as it proclaimed this week that it may withdraw stimulus because, paraphrasing, everything was awesome. Well, today’s existing home sales collapse may change that tune quickly…
Bloomberg reports that in a speech she’s delivering in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins highlighted how the nation’s recovery is broadening across regions and sectors, giving policy makers ‘reason to be encouraged.’
‘As growth continues and, ideally, broadens further, Governing Council will be assessing whether all of the considerable monetary policy stimulus presently in place is still required,’ Wilkins said in the text of a speech she’s giving Monday.
‘At present, there is significant monetary policy stimulus in the system.’

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jun 15, 2017.