I. Can't. Believe. What. I'm. Reading.
Oh. Dear. God.
It's like REIC aliens have taken over this poor writer's body and brain. Maybe a nice big under-the-table check from the NAR? What a fantastic piece by Forbes. I wonder when they'll fire the writer and editor responsible for this doozy.
Housing Boom!
Forbes
Kenneth L. Fisher
Don't buy it. For months now the debate has been over whether America will have a hard landing or soft landing, the answer hinging on how big 2007's housing disaster turns out to be. Well, there won't be any housing disaster.
We won't have a landing at all, soft or hard. Right now the U.S. and global economies are both accelerating.
You can see right through the housing crash story by looking at the prices of housing stocks. The market knows what the economic worrywarts do not, which is that the housing sector is already making a comeback. In the last six months housing stocks are up 24%, well ahead of the overall market. If housing were destined to fall apart in 2007 these stocks wouldn't be so strong now.
Did you know that housing sales are up in the last few months, not down, and that inventories are lower than six months ago? We're accelerating, not landing. This is true not just in housing but also pretty much across the board.
