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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

''Is This the End of the Housing Bust? Not So Fast, Says Shiller''

From WSJ

''Yale University professor Robert Shiller, isn’t convinced we’ve crossed into safe territory just yet.

His reasoning? The home-price rebound, if that’s what it is, doesn’t yet have momentum – which Shiller’s research has found is the most powerful driver of home prices.

Momentum is the tendency for prices to keep moving in the same direction. It exists, but is a relatively weak force, in the stock market. In the housing market, though, it’s proven to be a reliable predictor of where prices will go in the future.''

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