Paul Kasriel Quotes

Households have not meaningfully repaired their balance sheets since the onset of the last recession... Households are not 'better positioned' than they were earlier to boost outlays as their wariness about the economic environment abates. If anything, they are more poorly positioned to do so.

- Paul Kasriel

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