Why didn’t we see a similar bubble in commercial real-estate markets

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Shannon loves says those clamoring for further regulation of the housing market need to answer a question:

If greedy, irresponsible, unregulated etc. capitalism caused the housing bubble, why didn’t we see a similar bubble in commercial real-estate markets which operate under even less regulation than the residential markets? Why does the politically neglected and unregulated commercial real-estate market exhibit much milder swings?

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