no, it's not my work. The author is unknown.
On 8/22/06, Patrick Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jim, can you do a Kuznets plot on this, going back in fifteen year
intervals quite a bit further?
Thanks,
Patrick
Jim Devine wrote:
> Of Bubbles Past: A Chronological Listing of News Headlines from the
> Last Housing Bubble in Southern California [author unknown]
>
> There's been some confusion about just what went on during the last
> housing bust in Southern California. I was there then; I lived through
> it, I owned property, and I can tell you it was no fun at all. Then,
> like here, like now, people were saying things like "housing has never
> gone down here before (so it won't ever go down)", "housing always
> goes up", "houses aren't like stocks", "we're special", etc., etc.,
> etc.
>
> Below you will find a chronological listing of selected Los Angeles
> Times articles originally published between the years of 1985 and 1997
> (inclusive) culled from their archives. The similarity among headlines
> from then and now is quite informative.
>
> Of course, the housing bubble of today is far, far more extreme than
> it was then.
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Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
