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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mishedlo who wrote (7825)	2/12/2004 8:58:08 AM
From: Chispas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

@ Mish..."All told, our accommodative monetary policy stance to date does not seem to have generated excessive volumes of liquidity or credit." Around the world, using Spanish, intelligent people said, "Es loco en la cabeza !!" Poco !!!

To: mishedlo who wrote (7825)	2/12/2004 9:01:10 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

One major factor to hold housing prices in the US is population growth. Contrary to Europe were RE prices are also on the rise the US enjoys around 1% in population growth . It is my assumption that this growth contributes to around 8 to 10 million new RE units (apartments and homes) a year. Based on the average cost of an RE unit of around $180,000 or so this is a staggering number. It is very difficult to fight demographics as same population growth add also to retail sales and tax income to the government. Compared to Europe absent of population growth no wonder the US GDP is growing and EZ barely moving. Just another angle to evaluate odci.gov odci.gov odci.gov