{"id":4914,"date":"2012-12-05T12:24:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T18:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2012-12-05T12:24:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T18:24:24","slug":"how-fed-policy-distorts-home-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4914","title":{"rendered":"How Fed Policy Distorts Home Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/iaconoresearch.com\/2012\/12\/05\/how-fed-policy-distorts-home-prices\/\">Tim Iacono<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I\u2019ve about had it with how giddy a large portion of the U.S. population has become about rising home prices.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong, when first thinking about this, I was about as happy as anyone else to learn that property values are now rising sharply again since, after renting for six years, my wife and I finally bought a house about two years ago. So, we stand to benefit as much as anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>But, when you look at what\u2019s driving home prices higher and how unnatural and unsustainable those factors are, suddenly the headlines sound more ominous than optimistic.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Iacono: I\u2019ve about had it with how giddy a large portion of the U.S. population has become about rising home prices. Don\u2019t get me wrong, when first thinking about this, I was about as happy as anyone else to learn that property values are now rising sharply again since, after renting for six years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}