:The Fed's sharp, prolonged reduction in interest rates stimulated a housing market that was already booming -- triggering six years of double-digit increases in housing prices during a period when the general inflation rate was low. [http://www.heartland.org/article/24759/Deregulation_and_the_Financial_Panic_Loose_Money_and_Politicized_Mortgages_Are_the_Real_Villains.html] | :The Fed's sharp, prolonged reduction in interest rates stimulated a housing market that was already booming -- triggering six years of double-digit increases in housing prices during a period when the general inflation rate was low. [http://www.heartland.org/article/24759/Deregulation_and_the_Financial_Panic_Loose_Money_and_Politicized_Mortgages_Are_the_Real_Villains.html] |