Virtually everyone is confused, except for you? Or maybe you are just the one that doesn't actually understand it. It is like inflation not counting energy pr

Virtually everyone is confused, except for you? Or maybe you are just the one that doesn't actually understand it. It is like inflation not counting energy prices - it doesn't matter what happens to prices on some things, it matters what happens to the prices of things you actually spend your money on. So if housing prices went down per square foot compared to income but the size of the houses increased by a larger percentage than the decrease in price per square foot, the net result is more money out of your wallet. A good example of this: I tried to get a small place, I don't need the space, but when I looked I couldn't get any smaller than where I'm living. I'd love to lop off 400 sq ft and get that percentage of my money back, but I just can't. That is what exists in the market today where I'm living. The end result is more money out of my paycheck than I'd like and an empty bedroom in my house. (Luckily we can afford the place off one income at least) There are a lot of reasons why this happens, but the biggest one is that the cost difference to the builder of making a small house compare to a big one is a lot less than the price difference they get for building them. The same goes for boats, and today you can hardly buy a small boat anymore, they've all figured out the fatter margins are on the bigger ones. A similar question applies to her numbers for income. Income averages have increased, but that is a result of increasing income disparity more than an average increase. So what is the change for someone in the 1st percentile? The 25th? The 75th? the 100th? It is an impossibility for those numbers to be the same because the income disparity has increased so somebody is white washing the data here.