October 18, 2012
The Washington Post had a nice piece on the potential impact of the recovery of the housing market on the economy. The piece reasonably assumes that construction returns to its long-term trend share of GDP, rather than getting back to its bubble levels of the last decade. In this case it will make a substantial contribution to the recovery, although it still will not possible to return to full employment without large budget deficits, unless there is a substantial reduction in the size of the trade deficit.
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