“The free market for all intents and purposes is dead in America.” – Senator Jim Bunning, September 19, 2008
House Prices Go Vertical
The epic housing bubble and bust in the mid-to-late-2000s was dreadfully disruptive for many Americans. Some never recovered. Now the central planners have done it again…
On Tuesday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released its U.S. House Price Index (HPI) for September. According to the FHFA HPI, U.S. house prices rose 18.5 percent from the third quarter of 2020 to the third quarter of 2021.
By comparison, consumer prices have increased 6.2 from a year ago. That’s running hot! But 6.2 percent consumer price inflation is nothing. House prices have inflated nearly 3 times as much over this same period.
Here in the Los Angeles Basin, for example, things are so out of whack you have to be rich to afford a 1,200 square foot fixer upper in a modest area. Yet the clever fellows in Washington have just the solution. Continue reading







