Debt finances additional consumption. That could be the summary of a speech given on Tuesday to the National Retail Federation's annual convention by William C. Dudley, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dudley's remarks focused on the connections between housing and retail sales and why changes in the housing and mortgage markets "Have had important consequences for the dynamics of consumption over the last decade." These connections, he said, are among the reasons the recovery and economic expansion have been weaker than desired. The good news however, is that, while the current expansion is quite old in chronological terms, it is still quite young in terms of households' financial health. Household incomes tend to increase as individuals age, but ideally households

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