That means as many as 70 million people in North America will be on the move in the next 30 years. But for the present, Cunningham notes that we're adding 55,000 people a year to San Diego. We need 25,000 homes, and we're only building 12,000. That will certainly add to the crunch. Some say the presidential election year will protect us from surprises, since it's in everybody's interest not to rock the boat.
All academic research shows there is no statistical relationship between the two.
Even if the political powers took some kind of action, it's foolish to think any one force would have that much control. Except maybe Alan Greenspan. And he's received pretty good grades by economists for moving interest rates cautiously in the past few years. So, given no radical surprises like a dramatic rise in interest rates or an international situation we can't foresee the prognosis looks healthy for the year 2000. Modest gains in the stock market.