Mises Daily
Author:
Frank Shostak
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A recent academic study by economists Karl Case, John Quigley, and Robert Shiller of consumer-spending behavior in the U.S. and 13 other developed nations indicates that the wealth effect from housing is twice as great on consumer spending as comparable changes in stock-market wealth. In the U.S., for example, they found that a 10-percent gain in