The Post has a column today calling for housing price supports. This makes three in the last week by my count in the country's big three newspapers (NYT, WSJ, and WAPO).
The range of diversity in the views presented on this issue in these papers is about what we would expect from Pravda back in the days of the Soviet Union. Are they ever going to print the views of anyone who doesn't think that bailing out bankers and investors is a great use of taxpayer dollars?
How about printing the views of someone who was not surprised by the collapse of the housing bubble. The pages of these papers were almost completely closed to those who warned of the bubble on the way up (the NYT gets decent marks on this one). It would be nice if missing an $8 trillion housing bubble was not a prerequisite for getting your views in print in these papers.
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