The Yale economist Robert Shiller has indexed American housing prices going back to 1890.
You know how people like to say that such-and-such experience “was a real roller-coaster ride”?
Well, the blogger Richard Hodge at SpeculativeBubble.com wanted to see if housing prices really were a roller-coaster ride. So he plotted Shiller’s inflation-adjusted index onto a roller-coaster video ride. It is pretty fantastic.
(Hat tip: Matthew Fogarty)
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I would love to have a tool that could help do these kinds of funky visualizations. Something to think about for visualization software like swivel and spotfire.
I would love to have a tool that could help do these kinds of funky visualizations. Something to think about for visualization software like swivel and spotfire.
this is very cool. towards the last stretch of climing, you almost feel the coming fantastic plunge is nearer and nearer…
this is very cool. towards the last stretch of climing, you almost feel the coming fantastic plunge is nearer and nearer…
If only we could have seen 2006 from 1970 in real life like you could on the roller coaster…
If only we could have seen 2006 from 1970 in real life like you could on the roller coaster…
If only we could have seen 2006 from 1970 in real life like you could on the roller coaster…
Someone sent this to me recently and I have been sending it to everyone I know under the age of 35 who has never ever experienced a housing recession or depression.
Young people just think you buy a house and sell for a 20% gain in 2 years and that that can never ever stop and will go on forever and ever.
If only we could have seen 2006 from 1970 in real life like you could on the roller coaster…
Someone sent this to me recently and I have been sending it to everyone I know under the age of 35 who has never ever experienced a housing recession or depression.
Young people just think you buy a house and sell for a 20% gain in 2 years and that that can never ever stop and will go on forever and ever.