Why Housing Has Stalled — And Why Everything Else Will Follow
by John Rubino
DollarCollapse.com
April 27, 2014
It’s not easy being a mainstream economist. You spend your life building models that become your professional identity. And when those models fail to describe and predict reality, you’re left wondering about the meaning of it all.
The latest case in point is US housing. Keynesian economic models say that if you lower mortgage rates you get more houses bought, sold and built. A nice, simple piece of cause and effect. But today’s mortgage rates are at levels that would have incited a buying frenzy a generation ago, employment is rising — and home sales, home building and mortgage originations are all flat-lining.
Zero Hedge and Automatic Earth recently posted good discussions of the current state of the housing market. See:
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