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Re:Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake by Nursie on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:05AM (#26887478)
Helping to push up prices as they do so, attracting more speculators. That's not a net zero.

They also hold what are limited resources for a non-zero amount of time, reducing supply in aggregate. More speculators, more supply constraint.

This is not some sort of idealised marketplace where people can dip in and out without any effect.

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Re:Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake by WalterBright on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @04:15PM (#26894856)
You're missing that they short things they believe are overvalued, like in bubbles.

> This is not some sort of idealised marketplace where people can dip in and out without any effect.

You're right. Speculators work to decrease the peak of a bubble and increase the value of a dip.

The misapprehension is thinking the effect is only one way.

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Re:Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake by Nursie on Monday April 26, 2021 @10:24AM (#26942811)
> You're missing that they short things they believe are overvalued

In the housing market? LOL.

> Speculators work to decrease the peak of a bubble and increase the value of a dip.

Except that's nonsense, they increase the demand on an already massively in-demand resource, accelerating price rises.

Your ideas fly in the face of observable reality.

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