Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Hanson on Housing

I think Mark Hanson is pretty good at explaining the trends in housing. His latest blog post is no different. Here’s the main takeaway:

Unless exotic loans are reintroduced and widely accepted literally overnight, incomes surge, rates plunge to sub 3%, or all-cash buyers/investors substantially increase market share house prices are in store for period of retracement/mean reversion. And at present, all of these variables are going in the opposite direction.

Broken Money

The subtitle is Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better , and the author is Lyn Alden (2023). I feel like I hav...