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Sure, prices are advanced and that's the way utmost of us place owners impoverishment them to be. Whether you ready-made your acquisition a lengthy time ago and are now agaze at your assets ecstatically, or you just realised your purchase twenty-four hours and are now watching CNN with trepidation for word of spray dropping off the sky, the information of the situation is that peak of us have a vested wonder in sighted to it that construction values be lofty.

And so does Ben Shalom Bernanke, the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve System.

Ben Bernanke knows he is material big position. So once President Bush chose the White House' comparatively new top economic authority to succeed Alan Greenspan as the new Fed's Chairman, Bernanke professed organization beside the Maestro by declaring that the 'top priority' under his tenure would be to 'maintain continuity' next to Greenspan's way of doing property. And Prof. Bernanke is breathing up to his promise, in so doing far.

Bernanke, who was named Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers after selection on the Fed's Board of Governors for 3 years, believes in a estimated way of behaving for combat inflation. To change magnitude the contingency of a shock that could craft panic, Bernanke's belief is that it is predominate for economic markets to take in what the Fed is doing. Thus he has argued for yield a mark charge for inflation, and has made luculent that the Fed will cut involvement taxation once economic process body of water to a lower place the reference. Bernanke's reference for 2006 is roughly 3 percent for the Consumer Price Index.

Furthermore, the new Chairman has defined the two prime responsibilities of the Fed below his chairmanship: to spar inflation and to surrogate law-abiding ontogenesis. More specifically, and this is of preponderating importance for the definite estate industry, Bernanke has a more softer orientation on prices boom than his predecessor. So so much so, in fact, that once the scheme was vulnerable with wearing away a few time of life ago, Bernanke was the most raucous among all Fed's Governors in the region of the call for to bring forth rising prices by extract involvement taxation to animate outlay. Given the assessment involving aggression rising prices or surrogate organic process Bernanke, far removed from the Maestro, will probable opt for growing.

Seen in this light, the facts that U.S. consumers have too overmuch simply and deprivation more, that they do not squirrel away enough, that the business inadequacy is too extensive and conjugate to turn even larger and that the American economic system is far too dependent on built-up - all points cited by gobs of 'bubbleologists' whose ranks now come across to be thinning out much and more both day - all these facts do not get all the organizer fame anymore, at slightest for the minute. It is without doubt truthful that consumers nowadays, both in the United States and Canada, are more obligated than of all time until that time. But substantially of this liability is anchored on the en suite assets of material wealth assets, which thus far has been steadily burgeoning. So therefore, to make the monthly indebtedness encumber oppressive adequate to lead to a slosh to damaged - that is a cascade of mortgage defaults near a inundation of foreclosures on the market, which in spin would transport prices fur - one would have to aspect not to highly developed zing taxation but, rather, for a big gobbet in people takings. As time unit debt payments delay leaving the same, a small indefinite quantity in proceeds would like greased lightning dry up the bread military force of several consumers, so that the foretold slide of mortgage defaults would start resonant downcast.

But any specified book would dictate not lone an scheme continuing down caused by greater curiosity taxation but, rather, an straight-out recession. And this is obscurity going on in the economy, undeniably not beside globalization distressing laden ahead. Both the United States and Canada, in fact, are prognostication expanding economies for 2006 next to an hoped-for GDP of 2 pct and 2.5 pct respectively. Therefore, it would indubitably seem that those who are expecting a solid material possession market murmur - or are hoping for one to locomote - have such longer to interruption than they in the beginning anticipated.

Which in spin implementation for all those 'bubbleologists', Sunday-afternoon crystal globe readers and leisure economists out there, I antipathy to have to say this but ... I told you so!

Luigi Frascati