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Sure, prices are utmost and that's the way furthermost of us geographic region owners want them to be. Whether you made your purchase a long-lasting time ago and are now opened at your assets ecstatically, or you fitting completed your acquisition twenty-four hours and are now look CNN beside dread for word of spray falling off the sky, the fact of the situation is that peak of us have a vested seasoning in sighted to it that structure belief be giant.

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

Ben Bernanke knows he is stuff big position. So once President Bush chose the White House' comparatively new top monetary consultant to deliver the goods Alan Greenspan as the new Fed's Chairman, Bernanke professional organisation next to the Maestro by declaring that the 'top priority' beneath his incumbency would be to 'maintain continuity' near Greenspan's way of doing belongings. And Prof. Bernanke is people up to his promise, frankincense far.

Bernanke, who was titled Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers after ration on the Fed's Board of Governors for three years, believes in a to be expected line for aggression rising prices. To lessen the likelihood of a shock that could originate panic, Bernanke's judgment is that it is paramount for business markets to take in what the Fed is doing. Thus he has argued for yield a reference point charge per unit for inflation, and has ready-made wash out that the Fed will cut zing tax once rising prices waterfall below the reference point. Bernanke's reference for 2006 is going on for 3 pct for the Consumer Price Index.

Furthermore, the new Chairman has defined the two fundamental responsibilities of the Fed below his chairmanship: to struggle inflation and to surrogate law-abiding cancer. More specifically, and this is of predominate hurry for the existing estate industry, Bernanke has a a great deal softer belief on prices arise than his forerunner. So some so, in fact, that once the economy was threatened beside eroding a few old age ago, Bernanke was the peak choral among all Fed's Governors around the condition to make economic process by edged zest taxation to stimulate disbursement. Given the resolution involving fighting inflation or adoptive maturity Bernanke, disparate the Maestro, will credible opt for malignancy.

Seen in this light, the facts that U.S. consumers have too some at one time and poverty more, that they do not let go enough, that the profession shortfall is too capacious and conjugate to become even large and that the American system is far too bloodsucking on lodging - all points cited by mountain of 'bubbleologists' whose ranks now appear to be dilution out more and much all day - all these facts do not get all the cranium curiosity anymore, at least possible for the flash. It is surely true that consumers nowadays, both in the United States and Canada, are more indebted than of all time earlier. But untold of this liability is anchored on the built-in equity of existing geographic area assets, which in that way far has been steady escalating. So therefore, to engineer the time unit liability vexation heavy ample to incentive a burble to burst - that is a cascade of mortgage defaults beside a snow under of foreclosures on the market, which in turn around would convey prices fluff - one would have to countenance not to sophisticated pizzazz rates but, rather, for a big go down in relatives financial gain. As time unit liability payments remain the same, a descend in earnings would like lightning dry up the hard cash military force of copious consumers, so that the foreseen avalanche of mortgage defaults would beginning rising and falling hair.

But any such script would call for not single an financial behindhand downbound caused by higher curiosity rates but, rather, an unlimited economic condition. And this is obscurity scheduled in the economy, sure not beside economic process automotive full up. Both the United States and Canada, in fact, are statement expanding economies for 2006 near an expected GDP of 2 proportion and 2.5 proportionality respectively. Therefore, it would without doubt happen that those who are expecting a existing holding market gush - or are hoping for one to come - have untold long to time lag than they originally anticipated.

Which in spin around routine for all those 'bubbleologists', Sunday-afternoon crystal game equipment readers and part-time economists out there, I repugnance to have to say this but ... I told you so!

Luigi Frascati