{"id":41598,"date":"2018-01-27T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41598"},"modified":"2018-01-07T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T14:23:07","slug":"econ-duel-rent-or-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/27\/econ-duel-rent-or-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Econ Duel: Rent or Buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tYWhdzYnjmc\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Marginal Revolution University<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 13 Sep 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owning a home is a huge part of the American Dream. But is the dream of home ownership really all it\u2019s cracked up to be? <\/p>\n<p>In this new Econ Duel from Marginal Revolution University, Professors Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok weigh in on the issue. Each representing a side of the home ownership debate, the two professors ask what\u2019s smarter \u2014 to rent, or to buy?<\/p>\n<p>On the \u201cbuy\u201d side, Tyler Cowen shares the tax advantages of buying a home as well as the effect home ownership has on one\u2019s stability and savings regimen. Does buying a home force us into better savings habits? <\/p>\n<p>Against those arguments, we have Alex Tabarrok, coming down on the \u201crent\u201d side of the equation. <\/p>\n<p>Among other points, he talks about the real beneficiary of tax breaks (hint: It may not be you!). Along with that, Alex tackles the trials and tribulations of home-buying, in places like San Francisco, New York, or Boston, where a combination of scarce building permits and increased demand drive up home prices. Plus, doesn\u2019t owning a home &mdash; and committing a 20% down payment &mdash; break the diversification rule of good investing? <\/p>\n<p>All that said, though, here\u2019s the real question that matters \u2014 which side are YOU on? Watch and let us know in the comments! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marginal Revolution University Published on 13 Sep 2016 Owning a home is a huge part of the American Dream. But is the dream of home ownership really all it\u2019s cracked up to be? In this new Econ Duel from Marginal Revolution University, Professors Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok weigh in on the issue. Each representing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[426,571,1093,118],"class_list":["post-41598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-housing","tag-investment","tag-macroeconomics","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aOW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41599,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41598\/revisions\/41599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}