Even at the height of the housing bubble, home ownership reached 68% of the population.
For all the discord bubbling underneath the surface, employee ownership appeared to be a huge success at first.
Hardly a meltdown in the making.Margin ownership may be a leading indicator of a bubble, of course.
Gun ownership went up in 2006 when the housing bubble first popped in certain regions of the country, and continued to rise after every market dive.
The price of admission in this pro-gun bubble is no longer merely firearms ownership or enthusiasm for shooting sports.
First, our central bank created a housing bubble in order to increase home ownership, which led to an overleveraged consumer and banking industry.
Long-term pressure from Frank and his colleagues to expand home ownership connects government housing policies to both the housing bubble and the poor quality of the mortgages on which it is based.
The Campus Bubble founders initially "worried about Emory taking some ownership," says Mr. McCall.
If our economy has given us a housing bubble that locks most people out of home ownership, and a rental market that eats up vast chunks of our salaries for damp bedsits, why shouldn't we expect better?
However, the dotcom bubble coincided with a massive increase in retail share ownership, and the individuals who came pouring into the stockmarket the moms and pops of Main Street America were not in on the secret.
