Shouldn't the US have learned a lesson about Japan's huge housing bubble and tried to prevent it from happening here in the first place? During the rise of the

Shouldn't the US have learned a lesson about Japan's huge housing bubble and tried to prevent it from happening here in the first place? During the rise of the US housing bubble, people pointed out similarities to Japan but the experts kept saying that it was "different" here. In some ways, I feel like we are doomed to repeat many of the same mistakes.