Wise and Austrian economic advice from ThinkMarkets:
Posted: 08 Sep 2010 07:27 AM PDT
by Mario Rizzo
According to an article in the September 6th issue of the New York Times, more and more “experts” are now saying that the government should not try to prop up the housing market but should let prices adjust to their correct levels as rapidly as possible.
Well, you read that here as early as November, 2008 and then again in March 2009. It is part of the continuing myopic harping on aggregate demand which ignores all of the relative price adjustments that a post-bubble economy must experience. The Keynesian habit of ignoring the causes of depressions and dealing only with the analytically-secondary phenomena of aggregate expenditure is or should be unacceptable among intelligent economists.
I repeat what I said in 2008: Let the housing market collapse — fast.
We have collapsed in Las Vegas. Excellent homes in good neighborhoods for under 100k, even 50k, large condos and townhouses for 30 and 40. Reit time, if you have the yen, so to speak.