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Is the US Housing Market a Bubble Waiting to Burst?

The rate of increase of US house prices has been particularly strong over the past 3 years. Indeed,

house price inflation even accelerated in 2001, buoyed by falling mortgage interest rates, defying

both the economic slowdown and the collapse in stock markets.

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