This is just another trick to derail Romney's message that regulatory uncertainty is holding back the economy, including the housing market.

Now Romney will be forced to say the housing market is coming back due to Obamacare because it makes houses more expensive and therefore more attractive as an investment asset compared a mere consumption item.

This is no way to treat your fellow politician. The embarrassment of inconsistency is a private matter not to be paraded around in the public square of shopping malls rescued by Bain Capital.

That is a quote from the NYT piece, and it is why the whole "real estate recovery" thing is a mirage. Interest rates are in the toilet and the investor class is desperate to put its money somewhere, anywhere, with any kind of possibility for return at reasonable risk. CBS added that a significant portion was foreign investment using American property as a harbor due the their economies collapsing or about to collapse.

Robert Shiller, of Case-Shiller publishing the index, said "If these numbers persist for the next twelve months then I will begin to become optimistic." That's a long way from the hyperbole that "pure economists" are parading today.

Hopefully we're 20 years behind Norway rather than Japan--
http://www.theatlantic.com/bus...on/259020/