A lovely editorial comment on Coinflation...

Well, here is an interesting link, the average home size has more than doubled since 1950. I think that is a fairly decent measure to showing the strong growth in buying power.

http://realestate.msn.com/for-many-homeowners-less-is-so-much-more

 

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No, it just indicates that debt load has increased.

 

How many of those homes were lost after 2005?

 

Fair point, but as you correctly pointed out, statistics cannot be looked at in a vacuum. It may sharpen the picture if I can find statistics on median net worth. It would be my suspicion that net worth has also trounced inflation. I'll see what i can dig up.

 

I certainly agree the Great Recession shattered many families, it was the worst financial crisis since the depression. I just don't think it was the beginning of an unrecoverable downward spiral.