Housing Wealth Effect: Robert Samuelson Never Heard of Inflation

That's what readers would probably conclude from a column headlined "Americans have record wealth but aren't spending it." The first paragraph begins:

"In the economic history of our time, June 6, 2013, ought to occupy a special place. That’s the day the Federal Reserve disclosed that the net worth of American households — the value of what they own minus what they owe — hit $70 trillion, a record that exceeded the previous peak before the 2007-09 financial crisis. Higher stock prices and a l...