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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Topics: housing bubble

Carpe Diem

A Canadian perspective on America’s housing bubble

Mark J. Perry | February 5, 2013, 8:39 am

In the video above, we hear a Canadian perspective on the US housing bubble and financial collapse from Pierre Poilievre, a member of Canada’s Parliament representing the Nepean-Carleton (Ontario) district. He was speaking to Canada’s House of Commons in April 2012 about the economy and how to … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Does Canada have an unsustainable housing bubble and is it headed for a major 30% price correction like the US?

Mark J. Perry | January 30, 2013, 10:07 am

Does Canada have an unsustainable housing bubble that might be about to burst? You would sure think so looking at the graph above, which compares monthly home prices in the US (measured by the Case-Shiller Composite-20 Index through November 2012) … read more >

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Carpe Diem

US homeownership rate falls to a 17-year low of 65.3% in Q3 as ‘homeownership bubble’ continues to deflate

Mark J. Perry | November 7, 2012, 3:31 pm

The homeownership rate in the U.S. fell in the third quarter of 2012 to 65.3% (seasonally adjusted rate, see chart above), according to data released recently by the Census Bureau.  Compared to the all-time high homeownership rate of 69.2% in … read more >

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Politics and Public Opinion, Elections

How Romney should counter Obama’s claims about ‘the mess we’re in’

Peter J. Wallison | October 4, 2012, 4:17 pm

Mitt Romney did a great job last night, but the president is going to be much tougher in the next debate. As I predicted in The Weekly Standard last week, the president attacked Romney for advocating the same “policies that … read more >

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Economics, Pethokoukis, U.S. Economy

Now this is the mother of all housing bubbles

James Pethokoukis | July 2, 2012, 1:08 pm

Some stunning housing charts, via a new economic letter from the San Francisco Fed. The one at the top of this blog post plots real housing prices in the U.S. and Norway from 1890 to 2011. After peaking in 2006, U.S. … read more >

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Economics, U.S. Economy

Americans’ pre-crisis wealth was an illusion

Alex J. Pollock | June 21, 2012, 4:20 pm

Americans’ wealth didn’t disappear: it was never really there in the first place. People thought they had it, but they didn’t. read more >

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