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#41

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Last post by Admiral Yi - January 04, 2026, 02:04:00 PM

Before that is there a situation where you'd agree theres an affordability crisis?

Sure. A case like Canada's housing market (which I haven't heard about in a while  ) where the price to income ratio rises dramatically and stays I would  call a housing affordability crisis.  Or problem and not crisis.  What makes something a crisis?

#42

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Last post by Jacob - January 04, 2026, 02:02:40 PM

Name one historian who isn't a freak.

Suetonius?

#43

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Last post by Jacob - January 04, 2026, 02:01:22 PM

So from your point of view the affordability crisis is not really a thing?

I would need a workable definition of thing before I an answer.

Fair.

What I'm really wondering is what you think drives the current sentiments we hear about the affordability crisis (that there is one and that it's a big deal), if inflation is actually low?

Are there actual economic realities behind it separate from inflation, or is there something else that drives the narrative?

To be transparent - I don't have a strong opinion on the issue and no real understanding of how real or not real the affordability crisis is in the US.

My reddit feed has a semi-steady stream of articles with headlines with "'I Can't Afford This' Trump Voters in Rural America Stunned as Cost of Living Keeps Rising" and I'm wondering how real it is beyond the anecdote.

#44

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Last post by Josquius - January 04, 2026, 01:57:41 PM

Name one historian who isn't a freak.

#45

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Last post by DGuller - January 04, 2026, 01:51:07 PM

Rumour going around that trump made 400k by betting on Maduro getting kidnapped.

Props to him for making the prediction market more efficient.

#46

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Last post by HVC - January 04, 2026, 01:47:44 PM

So from your point of view the affordability crisis is not really a thing?

I would need a workable definition of thing before I an answer.

Before that is there a situation where you'd agree theres an affordability crisis?

#47

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Last post by HVC - January 04, 2026, 01:46:57 PM

Rumour going around that trump made 400k by betting on Maduro getting kidnapped.

#48

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Last post by Admiral Yi - January 04, 2026, 01:31:01 PM

So from your point of view the affordability crisis is not really a thing?

I would need a workable definition of thing before I an answer.

#49

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Last post by grumbler - January 04, 2026, 01:26:46 PM

Weirdo

or historian

Often times those two categorias overlap anyway

That's certainly true in my case.  The Venn Diagram is not quite a circle, though.

#50

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Last post by HVC - January 04, 2026, 01:25:10 PM

Weirdo

or historian

Often times those two categorias overlap anyway