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Housing Slump may exceed Depression

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scooterbug44

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An influential economist who long predicted the housing market bubble cautioned Tuesday that the slump in the U.S. housing market could cause prices to fall more than they did in the Great Depression and bailouts will be needed so millions don?t lose their homes.

Yale University economist Robert Shiller, pioneer of the widely watched Standard & Poor?s/Case-Shiller home price index, said there?s a good chance housing prices will fall further than the 30 percent drop in the historic depression of the 1930s. Home prices nationwide already have dropped 15 percent since their peak in 2006, he said.



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