Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Housing Price Roller Coaster!

Speculativebubble.com posted an excellent video using Atari's Rollercoaster Tycoon program. For full satisfaction, you have to ride the rollercoaster to the "end". It's a great illustration of the Shiller Home Price index and should not be missed.

US Home prices adjusted for inflation plotted as a roller coaster:




This video can also be seen at any of these places:

http://one.revver.com/watch/223100/flv/affiliate/79294

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUldGc06S3U

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2757699799528285056

http://blip.tv/file/187197/



This is the original Shiller graph: