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Re:Bank of Japan Is an Estimated Top 10 Holder in 90% of the... by marcosdumay on Monday April 25, 2016 @04:35PM (#11567125)
Housing is one of the preferred assets for the US government placing the money it creates. It's this way here at Brazil too.

The cheap money policies are the entire cause of the recent housing price explosion in a big part of the world.

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Re:Bank of Japan Is an Estimated Top 10 Holder in 90% of the... by KKKKkkkk1 on Monday April 25, 2016 @06:31PM (#11567924)
That's what I think too. In my home country, it's conventional wisdom that the central bank's policy of low interest rates is pumping up a bubble in housing prices. But somehow here in the United States, people feel it's more of a secondary issue.
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