California's Real Estate Bubble from The Libertarian Perspective #11

Fred E. Foldvary, offering the Libertarian perspective on California's bubble from August 2005, says:

...the dramatic rise in real estate prices has been caused by government intervention.

He argues that government fuels the bubble with 1) low interest rates, 2), providing streets, schools, transit, and security infrastructure, while landowners pay little of the cost, and 3) insuring deposits on banks that make risky mortgage loans, and 4) allowing banks to dump their loans on Fanny and Freddie.

Being a true Libertarian, Foldvary ends with a plea not to blame the market.