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Richard Florida - Richard Florida is Senior Editor at The Atlantic and Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto. See his most recent writing at The Atlantic Cities. More

Florida is author of The Rise of the Creative Class, Who's Your City?, and The Great Reset. He is founder of the Creative Class Group.

Bubble Trouble

By Richard Florida
May 19 2009, 11:53 AM ET Comment

Rebecca Wilder calculates housing bubbles - measured in terms of the price-to-rent ratio - for the UK, Ireland, Spain, and Germany as well as the U.S. (pointer via MarkThoma). America's bubble looks downright mild compared to Ireland, the UK, and Spain.



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