Housing bust
This I just can not understand, the only item where over time property raise's in value instead of falling. Where a used item is still sold for more then initial purchase price. In some limited case's property should go up only tiny bits when resold, but only in events where there was an add-on or remodel. Theft, Fraud, Usury, Deregulation, Price fixing Some property goes up/down in value based on factors that have nothing to do with the physical property it's self but neighboring property. This you can sum up to Fraud, Usury or Price fixing. Almost no one ever looks into this market as a source of potential crime happening as it has been going on like this for longer then 100 years. Some people when looking to sell a house will force those in the neighborhood to spend extra money and time to beautify their property to artificially inflate property values in time for the sale of their property. But no one looks into this as a Profiteering crime as the...