Showing posts with label housing crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label housing crisis. Show all posts
Monday, November 24, 2025

Is there really a housing crisis?

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Why is everything a crisis? Like the affordability crisis? The age of first home purchase has increased to 38. We were 22 when we bought our...
Tuesday, September 03, 2019

Overuse of the word CRISIS

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What if media, politicians, academics and marketers couldn't use the word "crisis?"  It must be like the word “sale,” because ...
Wednesday, April 03, 2013

How to create a new housing crisis

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The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA) evolved to the mess that gave us lower standards for mortgages and the meltdown of 2007. Now ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Capitalism, Corporatism, Socialism and Fascism

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"Capitalism is (or was) an “economic system in which capital was privately owned and traded; owners of capital got to judge how best to...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Self esteem and housing bubbles

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If you were a child or a parent in the 1970s-1980s, you were caught up in the self-esteem bubble. Even Christians like James Dobson did well...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Here’s a myth that helped create our housing crisis

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“Homeport Programs at Columbus Housing Partnership is a private, nonprofit organization founded in the belief that a decent and affordable h...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

The story of the housing meltdown from an economist

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Nobody caught on--not Greenspan, Bush, or Frank. And Barney Frank is still pushing more home ownership--without standards. But Bush will co...