As a guy with a white beard, I hate to pick on a fellow unshavery character.
But what the heck, Ben Bernanke is a public servant, and they are fair game. All year long. Not just in the autumn and winter, like the rabbit-hunting season used to be in Pennsylvania when I lived there. But that's another story.
Bernanke comes to mind because his name happened to pop up first when I Googled "no housing bubble," just for the heck of it.
A sport that is more fun than hunting rabbits, and much safer, is looking up old predictions and seeing how wrong they were. Bernanke, in 2005, said there was no danger of a housing bubble. He may have said it other times, before or after that, and there are others who might serve as better examples of bubble deniers. I just mention him as a random example.
Bernanke's bubble blunder comes to mind because some people are now saying that prices in some segments of the commercial real estate world may be floating higher on mini-bubbles these days
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