February 18, 2019 12:00pm by Barry Ritholtz
As real-estate buyers, lenders, and builders got swept up in speculation before the historic housing bust of 2006-09, prices soared even as a flood of new homes came onto the market. That unsustainable combination doesn’t exist today, as told in the latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek.
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Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.