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I think they spiked to around 9% in about 2000, after mostly falling through the 80s and 90s.

 

This is accurate. I was a manger at my previous job with access to the survey results. L

 

My guess is as well is that we have not kept up with building houses to match population growth coupled with houses becoming investment rentals which pulls them out of the housing stock.

I swear I have posted something similar in here before, getting weird deja vu from this post lol.

 

The increased availability of credit, enabled in large part by banking deregulation and the creation of mortgage-backed securities and other derivatives that allowed banks to give out loans at lower interest rates because their risk was less-directly tied to the mortgage itself. This then incentivized the banks to give out more mortgages at higher home valuations, which created and burst the housing bubble.

 

Yyyyep.

This is more about the last part with the bubble bursting, but covers everything Elder said:

 

the aclu called today and asked for money and I told them no but the Dems told me if I just vote harder it will do the trick. She, rightly, told me that’s why the aclu exists, because that’s bullshit. It made me actually want to donate/renew my membership. I didn’t, but I at least thought about it.

 

There's a house in my neighborhood that just went on the market for $700k and in the listing it says it is the "perfect starter or retirement home for those looking to downsize" lol

 

I had a coworker who was saying his dad wanted to buy a lake house but they wanted $1.5 mill and he only wanted to give them $1.3 mill so he could build an entire third story on top of it.

Like damn dude, you and I are living in totally different worlds haha

 

uhmmmm this isn't the Big Short

 

yeah this one is better(nerdier)

I have, to my great shame, not seen the Big Short yet, huge blind spot for me considering my personal interests and job lol

 

Margot Robbie explains the stock market while taking a bubble bath!

 

I thought this was the one where Steve Carrell gets a wax job?

 

no that’s Evan Almighty

 

I hate that I can now read this lol

 

Vermont Lawmaker Releases Spy Cam Video of Rival Lawmaker Dumping Water in his Bag | Seven Days

 

Los foros de internet están desapareciendo porque ahora todo es Reddit y Discord. Y eso es preocupante

 

Same lol. I'm 34 and there was never any sense of pride in "learning something new" it was simply "how do I get this done so I go a day without someone bothering me."

Then I'd get home and spend hours researching some random topic or learning how to code a myspace background to do what I wanted. School had a very small role in my education. Even in college the most useful part of my time there was the club I joined as opposed to the major I enrolled in lol.