Word: homely
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...house, except you don't have to go through the real estate agent, take possession of a property, maintain it, rent it out. But we also have the DMM, which is short housing. Markets like this will also create an infrastructure for products. For example, insurers could issue home-equity insurance and then hedge themselves by taking a position in this market...
...Home-equity insurance. We want to have homeowners' insurance, which protects against things like fires, updated so that it protects against a loss of market value. Fires were a big problem hundreds of years ago. Houses were burning down all the time. Now we've developed a different problem-the residential housing market has gotten much more volatile...
...conspicuous fact with our [Case-Shiller] data is that prices are still falling, although at a somewhat lower rate. There is also some sign of pick-up in pending-home sales. But to me the dominant fact is that prices are still falling. We've never seen a real estate market turn on a dime. For the longer horizon, though, it's possible that we are picking up. The other thing that is striking is that home prices have come down a lot, so they're no longer very overpriced...
...know. It's bizarre. People are fascinated by housing they want to read the home section of the newspaper and gossip about it. But they don't seem to want to trade it. I think it's all a matter of getting it right. And we continue to work on it. It's like insurance. They invented life insurance in the 1600s, but it didn't become common until the 20th century...
...could be there soon. But a full recovery didn't come until 1947/1948. We really messed up our system for now, and it's going to be hard to have a full recovery. But we could have further gains in the stock market and an end to the home-price declines...