The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 (2019)
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#2So basically, housing is the best investment vehicle based on all the numbers.
Re: The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 (2019)
#3So basically, housing is the best investment vehicle based on all the numbers.
Sad state of affairs, but yes.
Re: The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 (2019)
#4So basically, housing is the best investment vehicle based on all the numbers.
Earth's population is constantly growing, thus yes.
Re: The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 (2019)
#5So basically, housing is the best investment vehicle based on all the numbers.
I wonder if this is still true once population growth reaches zero or negative. It seems like the baked in assumption of housing is that someone else is going to need it more tomorrow than you do today. I think this is an experiment the U.S. will begin running in earnest in the near future.
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#6A few of the links to the 5 other times this has been posted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16078059 on Jan 5, 2018
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19817584 on May 5, 2019
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Re: The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 (2019)
#8So basically, housing is the best investment vehicle based on all the numbers.
Before 1950, yes.
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#9How can an entire economy have a growth rate? Is it not measuring how much "new money" was put into the system?
Re: The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 (2019)
#10So basically, housing is the best investment vehicle based on all the numbers.
I wonder if this is still true once population growth reaches zero or negative. It seems like the baked in assumption of housing is that someone else is going to need it more tomorrow than you do today. I think this is an experiment the U.S. will begin running in earnest in the near future.
That if won't happen anytime soon neither for the Earth in general nor USA in particular. Media often loves to move goals from population growth to agin g population to fertility rate, etc. All those while connected do not negate the fact that population is growing, and growing fast. That 'once population growth reaches zero or negative' is very theoretical and UN is constantly underestimating population growth. So no, we will not see that in our lifetimes.