Comments on: The Housing Market http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/06/29/the-housing-market.html High-minded, fanatically malthusian perspectives Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:09:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/06/29/the-housing-market.html/comment-page-1#comment-93526 Dan tdaxp Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:11:12 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/?p=5697#comment-93526 Adam, Excellent point! Eddie, Most "social historians" are more interested in fighting oppression inherent in the system (blah blah blah), but there may be an economic study of it available. I don't know. My grandfather purchased his farm at around that time, from a speculator. Someone else couldn't make a hack of it. Because Pelosi wasn't in power at the time, my grandfather had a chance to... and he did. Adam,

Excellent point!

Eddie,

Most “social historians” are more interested in fighting oppression inherent in the system (blah blah blah), but there may be an economic study of it available. I don’t know.

My grandfather purchased his farm at around that time, from a speculator. Someone else couldn’t make a hack of it. Because Pelosi wasn’t in power at the time, my grandfather had a chance to… and he did.

]]> By: Eddie http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/06/29/the-housing-market.html/comment-page-1#comment-93525 Eddie Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:07:20 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/?p=5697#comment-93525 "Mother of tdaxp has long insisted that the Great Depression worked a great deed that is often not appreciated: it broke up many of the landed estates that had developed by the 1930s, making land cheap and allowing a new generation of farmers to till the land. Thus, one of the effects of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s American midwest was a great transfer of wealth from the richer to the poorer." I had never heard of that before. That's a really great story worth reading about (will have to find a book or two about it hopefully) and I wonder if it has been replicated in some fashion at all in other countries. (aside from the Black Death in England especially providing surviving peasants with ample opportunity to exploit their talents and worth). “Mother of tdaxp has long insisted that the Great Depression worked a great deed that is often not appreciated: it broke up many of the landed estates that had developed by the 1930s, making land cheap and allowing a new generation of farmers to till the land. Thus, one of the effects of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s American midwest was a great transfer of wealth from the richer to the poorer.”

I had never heard of that before. That’s a really great story worth reading about (will have to find a book or two about it hopefully) and I wonder if it has been replicated in some fashion at all in other countries. (aside from the Black Death in England especially providing surviving peasants with ample opportunity to exploit their talents and worth).

]]> By: Adam http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/06/29/the-housing-market.html/comment-page-1#comment-93508 Adam Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:04:19 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/?p=5697#comment-93508 Ah, a great example of what I was just discussing yesterday. Low housing prices are bad for those looking to sell, but great for those looking to buy. Ah, a great example of what I was just discussing yesterday. Low housing prices are bad for those looking to sell, but great for those looking to buy.

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