The housing bubble and copying

Posted by on Oct 9, 2008 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

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Easy (and pleasurable) though it is to kick the bankers and the politicians who loosened the regulatory framework, it's not like you and I get off scott free.

Like other aspects of the current financial situation, the UK's housing bubble is partly (at least) the result of us copying each other ("self-certified-buy-to-let-better-than-any-pension-safe-as-houses etc")

Nice piece by John Gapper here in the FT that explains this

Hat tip Tom