Special report | The future

What is the future of the rich world’s housing markets?

It is plausible that house prices could persistently rise faster than incomes

MOORE’S LAW states, roughly, that computing power doubles every two years. Time and again experts predicted its demise—surely, they reasoned, computers cannot continue getting exponentially more powerful. Yet it held for at least half a century.

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The horrible housing blunder: Why the obsession with home ownership is so harmful

From the January 18th 2020 edition

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