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The house price horror show - With Vinjeru Mkandawire

The David McWilliams Podcast

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The Swedes Love Housing, They Love a Banking Boot

The Swedes love housing, they love a banking boot. They had a massive property boom bust late 80s, early 90s. Then we won't do that again. But the Swedes did this sort of to lend the Estonians and the Latvians and all the Baltics. So when they had a property crash in 08, it was the Swedes fingerprints were all over them. The idea is sometimes the worst of decisions are taken in the best of times. And so if we're going to go into a global downturn, right, this is just for Ireland. Forget the rest of the work. It's going to frankly be live here, right?

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