Don't forget, millions of immigrants from Europe in the 20th century to "Americanized" names because their European surnames were either long, hard to pronounce and even harder to spell.

At the end of the day real estate tends to be so localized it is hard to make overarching assumptions.I do agree though in the broader scheme the problems with the European economy and the Feds reluctance to increase interest rates do not bode well for the macro economy The price increases do make it tough on investors who want to cash flow on rentals, but it does seem the rents are increasing along with the home values, just a little more slowly.

Personally, I think the USA would be better off with European-style gun control.

Thanks to negative interest rates in the European bond market, Berkshire was able to get investors to lend it money at a 0% interest rate -- essentially securing free financing.https://www.msn.com/en-us/mone...

England and Germany were the safeguards of the European Union and now with Brexit the next crash will be caused by a sovereign debt crisis in either Portgual, Italty, Ireland, Greece or Spain.

My 401k is a well diversified portfolio, it has bonds and stocks, it has stocks from emerging markets, European and Asian markets, US markets.

Look at how much controversy surrounds just the study of European settlement of the U.S. and their conflict with Native Americans! 

During ski season the majority of people are here for the weekend and are limited to just the MMSA whereas during the summer everyone is on vacation (European travels too) with lots to do (golf, hiking, fishing, music festivals, Yosemite,etc).

For past 12 months I've brought 20 families from my community (eastern European immigrants) and the street quality changed big time.

The Alaska Air flight where the door popped was also a sub contractor issues.the one that is on Boeing is the MCAS although the flights that crashed were all non US or European carriers ..