Investing Like it's 1629 (sing to the old Prince song)
If houses hadn't fallen in price there would've been no crisis, sayeth the NY Times.
It was also said that home prices fell dramatically in price primarily due to rampant speculation (a bubble was created) during the early '00s.
There would likely not have been rampant speculation in houses if the stock market, the normal target of reckless speculation, had not already crashed in 2000 due to reckless speculation.
You could say we just keep moving from one speculative bubble to another and learn nothing from it. So here is my public service announcment to the Baby Boomers: you're not going to get double-digit returns like you did during the '80s and '90s in the stock market. Live it, love it, learn it.
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