The Real Estate Carry Trade Is A “Death Star”: With John Wright

October 12, 2025 01:24:22
The Real Estate Carry Trade Is A “Death Star”: With John Wright
Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) Blog
The Real Estate Carry Trade Is A “Death Star”: With John Wright

Oct 12 2025 | 01:24:22

/

Show Notes

Associate Professor John Wright is back to dive further into the root cause of the property market crisis: carry trades. In his earlier show we discussed the philosophy based on his new book. https://youtu.be/fWTsHsGBHzY In this show we go deeper, as John Wright centres on the concept of Carry Trades and the practical implications. When you examine the property crisis through this lens, things change, and factors like supply and migration become mere symptoms of a greater ill. Worse, he says, all carry trades create the conditions for their own collapse. The capital imbalance is already here and will accelerate. […]

Other Episodes

Episode

August 31, 2024 00:27:50
Episode Cover

Markets Gain Ground Despite Choppy Trading!

This is our weekly market update, where we start in the US, cross to Europe and Asia and end in Australia. And let me...

Listen

Episode 0

November 29, 2023 00:12:58
Episode Cover

Kiwi’s Yet To See Higher Rates Thanks To Migration?

The Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee held the Official Cash Rate at 5.5% Wednesday in Wellington. This was as expected by most economists. But...

Listen

Episode

June 01, 2026 01:30:17
Episode Cover

Its Edwin's Monday Evening Property Rant!

In this show, I discuss the latest data with our property insider Edwin Almeida, as we examine the monthly moves across the country, listings...

Listen