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1990 Newsweek Cover: The Real Estate BUST

Posted By Barry Ritholtz On September 15, 2010 @ 5:30 am In Contrary Indicators,Real Estate,Really, really bad calls | Comments Disabled

As a follow up to yesterday’s look at Time magazine’s Housing covers [1], Paul Macrae Montgomery of Universal Economics was kind enough to share this report from 1992.

In that research piece, Paul had made mention of an October 1st, 1990 cover story in Newsweek: The Real Estate BUST.

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How well did that cover work out ?

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Pretty well indeed . . .


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[1] Time magazine’s Housing covers: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/09/a-tale-of-home-prices-told-through-the-cover-pages-of-time-magazine/

[2] Image: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Newsweek-The-RE-Bust-.png

[3] Image: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Homebuilding.png

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