Obama Deserves Blame, not Credit for the First-Time Homebuyers Tax Credit

Mark Zandi is anxious to give President Obama credit for the first time homebuyers tax credit, arguing that it helped stop the free fall in house prices. Actually, blame would be more appropriate. The credit was offered at a time when the bubble was still far from having fully deflated. The credit was not going to maintain house prices at a permanently inflated level unless the government was prepared to go the route of a house price support program. (This would be sort of like out farm price...