Rebutting Ritholtz on “Housing Affordability” The [Housing Affordability Index] as presently constructed is utterly worthless. It provides little or no insight into how affordable US Housing actually is. Further, what is omitted from the index is especially relevant to the problems occurring in the housing market today. The Index fails to account for — or...Read More
David Lereah’s Kind-of Mea CulpaThough he’s hardly a household name, David Lereah — formerly the chief economist for the National Association of Realtors — achieved not a little notoriety for writing the extremely ill-timed (2005), “Are You Missing the Real Estate Boom?” For that, Lereah is forever assured a place in financial trivia Hell along...Read More
Is Barry Ritholtz Right About Realtors? “$#@%&realtors . . .%&*!! NAR . . !!#%@!! . . David Lereah . . .$#%&! . . . NAR . . . %&!!@realtors . . .%&*!! NAR.” –“Former NAR Economist David Lereah is a Jackass,” Barry Ritholtz; The Big Picture blog (1/6/09)As a real estate agent active in the...Read More
