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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.
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State of Denial

By Richard Florida

May 24 2009, 4:50 PM ET Comment

Real estate got just about everyone into trouble in Phoenix, and the thinking seems to be that real estate is going to get everyone out.
A real estate "frenzy" is apparently developing there, the NYT reports, as bottom feeders gobble up mass foreclosures.

It`s not just Phoenix I fear, it's our national mind-set writ large.


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