Excellent Bubble article

Looking at a recent magazine covers one is left with the impression that the whole world is concerned about US real estate prices. This is borne out by the fact that if you go to Google and type in sex you get 78,000,000 hits. If you type in real estate you get 110,000,000 hits, which makes housing about 40% more interesting than sex. Is there a greater sign of a bubble? But if you type in housing bubble you get “only” 1,120,000, so there is not much worrying going on. While the above facts do not constitute a scientifically valid study, they make a fun launching point for this week’s letter. Are we in fact in a housing bubble? How long will prices continue to go up? Will they start to fall, or even crash, and when?

Read the entire article at John Mauldlin’s site.

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