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gfodor on Dec 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: You Are Naturally Short Housing

Seems like a semantic argument. Clearly the wealth did not fall from the sky.

justincormack on Dec 11, 2012 [–]

Asset price changes are not wealth, they are inflation plus redistribution.

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