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From: solomon gherski Category: Art Date: 14 December 2007 Time: 06:46 AM Review: Ask a property investor whether the market is going to collapse and they will say I don't know showing the palms of their hands to indicate agnosticism, and then tell you why the demand for property in central london will stay strong: supply and demand, immigration etc. The thing is we have had it so good for so long we forget the fun of downturn, disquiet, repossessions, rioting, xenophobia, revolution. The super rich, the billionaires, no longer seeming quite so magical. And we can stop invading other countries and exaggerating a global islamist conspiracy, we can even slow down on the torture and artfairs and reduction of basic liberties. You know when an unemployed artist can get a mortgage that something is wrong in the system. It's like a paperboy giving stock tips. So what went up will fall, and every rich and poor idiot will panic, and stuff (investments?) will get cheaper and rich people will buy again, and after a few years unemployed bankrupts will be getting mortgages again, and we will start the music all over.