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The Real Reason Millennials Don’t Buy Cars and Homes
Yahoo Finance ^
| Fri, May 31, 2013
| Rick Newman
Posted on 06/01/2013 10:55:17 AM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: JCBreckenridge
If you could suggest someone else who can fix it, that would be good. I would like to hear about it too. All you want to do is complain bitterly about the old mechanic, and that is getting us nowhere.
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posted on
06/04/2013 4:01:36 AM PDT
by
beef
(Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
To: beef
Can’t fix it till we get rid of the guy trying to fix it. It’s like trying to fill a hole. First you stop digging.
Doesn’t do me much good to get a mechanic who can fix things if I’ve still got the other guy working on it.
Now, if you’re suggesting that the guy who is trying is amenable to reason? That would be trying to convince him not to do what he wants to do. I’m all ears. It’s probably easier to just replace him.
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posted on
06/04/2013 5:26:17 AM PDT
by
JCBreckenridge
(Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
To: Shadow44
The only people that come out on that are the statist thugs who successfully caused like-minded people to squabble over assigning blame. I like that...
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posted on
06/04/2013 8:16:41 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Swedes bring their cars..savages their flames..burning cars a metaphor. D. Greenfield)
To: CodeToad
My quote: It wasnt until the recovery from the Long Depression of the 1880s and the Great Panic of 1893 that the concept of owning ones residence became a widespread notion in the USA Your response: Actually, I think when this country was founded the idea of private property ownership was the idea. I dont recall either that the pilgrims rented. -------------------- My response: The great urbanization of the US population were seeded in policies developed in the 1880s, not until the 1920's did it really transform the country. So while the frontier was readily homesteaded, the mass of the urban population households of the US urban areas were never majority home owners. realestate.wharton.upenn.edu/research/papers/full/669.pdf Little known fact, home ownership rates fell every year between 1890 and 1920. As of today, we have now surpassed the immigration rates of the 1880-1920 period, and urbanization is again increasing. And just as the economic activities and jobs shifted rapidly between rural and urban areas, we're seeing a shift from rural/exurban/outer suburbs to urban areas. On top of that, almost 100% of families with elderly family members between 1880 and 1920 in rural America were multigenerational households, the creation of "nuclear family" households is a historical anomaly that might have run it's course in North America. www.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/multigenerational.pdf So I'll stick with the idea that the US population is returning to historical norms, and the great expansion of single family households over the last 90 years was an event of a particular time and place, one that isn't going to be repeated any time soon.
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