An unprecedented run-up in the stock market propelled the U.S. economy in the late nineties and now an unprecedented run-up in house prices is propelling the current recovery. According to Dean Baker, like the stock bubble, the housing bubble will burst. Eventually, it must. When it does, the economy will be thrown into a severe recession, and tens of millions of homeowners, who never imagined that house prices could fall, likely will face serious hardships.
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Edward L. Glaeser & Joseph Gyourko, 2006.
"Housing Dynamics,"
NBER Working Papers
12787, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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