It's funny that your first example is real estate, when I've read many stories this past year about how private equity is buying up lots of residential homes, a

It's funny that your first example is real estate, when I've read many stories this past year about how private equity is buying up lots of residential homes, and driving the prices even higher than what inflation accounts for. It was a huge story recently that Zillow was trying to buy (and flip) homes, based on their pricing algorithm. Thankfully, they failed miserably.