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Policies have focused on short-run changes and gimmicks recall cash for clunkers and first-time home buyer credits rather than on creating conditions that are favorable to investment that raise productivity and wages.
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Housing markets may be forever doomed to cyclicality for many reasons, but public policies that stimulate new construction or home purchases by tax and financing subsidies, reduction of qualifying incomes, buyer credits, mortgage backstopping, and preferential zoning and permitting, only intensify these cycles.
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The home buyer tax credits pushed prices up a bit in 2009 through 2010.
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And of course it makes some sense, given the fact that the Home Buyer Tax credits, which artificially boosted home prices by incentivizing sales on and off from early 2009 through August 2010, expired.
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Indeed, once the government assistance is removed, as we have seen with the home buyer tax credits in the housing market, the private business market is then left to stand on its own legs perhaps before it is ready or able to do so.
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Hungarian officials say the credits were ultimately destined for a buyer in Japan.
ECONOMIST: Carbon markets
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The company made the world's first cross-border carbon trade in 2002 when it brokered the sale of credits for 200, 000 tons of carbon dioxide from the government of Slovakia to a Japanese buyer.
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