Housing roller coaster


Here is a very clever visualization of the recent US housing bubble. Using Atari's RollerCoaster Tycoon, it plots US home prices, adjusted for inflation (via Shiller's Irrational Exuberance), as a rollercoaster.

The last part of the journey seems to go on forever. And then, you are left hanging in mid-air. The only way is down.....

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