I'm in real estate in Dillon -Colorado . We haven't really had that many realty buyers, but I am showing a Dillon property tomorrow that is listed for $529k. The people bought it just a couple years ago for $579k How many of these Dillon vacant homes were investment Dillon properties? Your're partly right. except we are not printing up money, we are only adding more electronic zeroes onto our already astounding debt. This is all happening in the virtual realty world. I notice no real property in dillon  has disappeared. By whatever means, a virtual economy has evolved that has highly inflated some some folks accounts, and left others empty. But whatever the piper shall be paid.