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Greenspan mounts a similar defense concerning the housing bubble.
Higher interest rates to reduce the housing boom seem, even in retrospect, ill advised if the cost is mass unemployment.
All in all, Greenspan served the United States and the world well through his stewardship of monetary policy, especially by what he did not do: trying to stop stock and housing speculation by halting the economy in its tracks.
Kenya’s leaders understand this, which is why the government has made manufacturing, health care, education, and affordable housing top priorities in its Vision 2030 development program.
There should be business opportunities, too, in housing, power, transport, and energy infrastructure.
For example, someone who receives $8,000 a year in transfer payments (such as food stamps, housing assistance, and the Earned Income Tax Credit) might be deemed to have received the equivalent of $4 an hour toward meeting the minimum wage.
But, as Bruce Katz and Luise Noring have documented, in many cities in America and around the world, elected officials, civic organizations, and private business often unite beyond party lines to design and find funding for innovative projects in public transport, housing, or economic development.
The bottom line is that large sustained external imbalances are something that global policymakers do need to monitor closely, because, as the US housing bust showed, they can be an indicator of problems that need to be investigated more deeply.
Pakistan has a large nuclear weapons program and faces an expansive jihadi insurgency, which previously attacked military bases suspected of housing nuclear assets.
The ensuing bubble in Japanese housing and equity prices inflated and burst not because Japan succumbed to US pressure to allow the yen to appreciate, but because Japan, in the end, resisted that pressure.
It noted that “borrowers at risk of significant mortgage payment increases remained a small minority, concentrated mostly among higher-income households that were aware of the attendant risks,” and concluded that “indications are that credit and risk allocation mechanisms in the U.S. housing market have remained relatively efficient.”
Moreover, “the US housing market appears to be stabilizing....Overall, the US mortgage market has remained resilient, although the sub-prime segment has deteriorated a bit more rapidly than had been expected.”
Housing construction has not revived, because house prices are falling.
So, with the bond market appearing ripe for a dramatic correction, many are wondering whether a crash could drag down markets for other long-term assets, such as housing and equities.
After all, participants in the housing and equity markets set prices with a view to prices in the bond market, so contagion from one long-term market to another seems like a real possibility.
Regarding the stock market and the housing market, there may well be a major downward correction someday.
But so would a scenario in which a sudden bond-market crash drags down prices of stocks and housing.
Economists even analyzed the political economy of regulation and deregulation, so we could have understood why some US politicians pushed the private sector into financing affordable housing, while others deregulated private finance.
How do we know if the housing market is in a bubble?
At least one aspect of a housing bubble is visible: rapid price increases.
The increase in housing prices during the 1980's is now viewed as the veritable model of a boom cycle turned bust.
Evidence about a housing bubble in the 1980's was compelling.
In Europe, the average ratio of home prices to incomes is slightly below its long-term average, mainly because housing prices in Germany are at historically low levels by this measure.
Judging from the historical record, housing price declines fortunately tend to be relatively local, and nationwide drops are unlikely.
This is particularly true in Great Britain, where a number of members of Parliament have used their housing allowances to enhance their income, sometimes legally and sometimes not.
The unwinding of the US economy might even begin in 2006, particularly if Japan continues to grow out of its doldrums, the US housing market softens dramatically, and Europe’s economic recovery accelerates.
Although human lives can be saved by this kind of assistance to the "poorest of the poor," efforts to promote economic development might more effectively focus on other modes of intervention, such as environmental management, housing improvement, applications of residual insecticide, and efforts against the mosquitoes that transmit the infection.
Moreover, the housing price index for 70 major Chinese cities has dropped from 9.6% in January to -2.6% last month.
US consumption, the single biggest driver of global growth, is surely headed to a lower level, on the back of weak housing prices, rising unemployment, and falling pension wealth.
The 1954 Hague Convention calls on states not to target cultural sites and to refrain from using them for military purposes, such as establishing combat positions, housing soldiers, or storing weapons.
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