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So a bubble. What is a bubble?
Pardon if i slur, but i'm having bourbon now.
A bubble. How much should a house be worth?
So we can look at it different ways, but in the end, the answer is subjective and variavle, because a house has nothing about it which gives it an a priori valuation. The value is subjective to other factors.
If we go back to the 1920s, there are sears and robuck catalogues that sold prefab houses which you could assemble and make a decent home. I lived in one, many moons ago. But now that house costs, not 5k, but 800k USD. So why is it higher?
Until very recently, it was still in a white part of town. It is close to amenities and downtown. In a word, it was/is convenient. So those things are good, and we understand them, but they are intangible. If you buy or sell that hous3 you are selling asthetic, feel, history, proximity, culture, pinache. Not practicle things. But these things drove up the value 16000% in 100 years. That's better than most investments, right?
Wrong. That's the add on of inflation. In the same period of time, a $20 gold piece has gone from face value to $3500, a 17500% increase. So if you'd held a hanful of 'boomer rocks', you'd have done way better, and never had to pay tax or maintenance on the house.
Some stock might have done better, but what stock in what company frpm the 1920's still exists? The S&P? If you could even have lived that long, what are the odds you'd have known that S&P was the big winner? You'd have turned $100 into 2.3 million, a 23000% return.
The hard fact is that all of the best businesses in 100 years did just better than monetary commodities over the same period. 31.4% better.
All of these increases are essentially bubbles, when compared to the dollar, yet because of inflation the never go down.
>bubbles pop
That's what they tell the public, but when have they ever been honest with the public?