It would just accelerate foreclosures, and if more families were evicted from their homes, that would mean more homes offered for sale - an increase in supply.
In other words, we humans are strange and often our own worst enemies, especially when it comes to trying to increase our exercise or reduce our weight.
A one-point rise in immigration made the native-born slightly worse off in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland.
The world should prepare for "harder times ahead" according to the UN's food and Agriculture Organisation unless production of food crops increases significantly next year.
Last year the UN's food and Agriculture Organisation said that food production would have to increase globally by 70% by 2050 to feed the world's surging population.
Making polluters pay for their emissions will inevitably raise the cost of electricity and fuel, which will feel like a big hike in taxes in the midst of a recession.
Stevenson and Wolfers provide a number of possible reasons why this occurred, including non-comparable data over time, and increasing income inequality in the US during this period.
In the second half of the millennium, in the south around the city of Uruk, there was an enormous escalation in the area occupied by permanent settlements.