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“Creative destruction” in housing still has a ways to go

February 23rd, 2009 by Jim Just

This graph is from Robert Shiller at Yale:

U.S. government policy is now attempting to “mitigate” foreclosures instead of allowing the housing market to correct to its fair value.

Exactly why is propping up housing prices supposed be good public policy? Even if it were, is it possible?

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