The market has been artificially inflated as the foreclosure and eviction moratoriums have prevented a lot of distress inventory from entering market.

Don't believe me, check out the data on poverty from the Census Bureau.As for the Section 8 program, as another poster here pointed out, it has artificially increased housing prices by creating an artificial increase in demand.

For the past few months, I have had a notification set up on BP for "machine learning," "artificial intelligence," and "singularity," but this is the first ping I've seen. 

It is trust.I define marketing as "Artificial credibility".Marketing = Credibility. 

You need someone who understands your situation and will help you along, not put up artificial roadblocks.

Our tax bill this year was insane by my standards, especially since it was our first year filing jointly, and my taxable income was artificially low due to my military service.

He might be reporting a higher rent amount as part of a rent survey to artificially inflate market rents in order to get a higher rent from another section 8 tenant.  

Currently, the rates are going up partially due to Fed unwinding their balance sheet....Asset prices are sooo overvalued because of the artificially low rates for years...I expect asset prices to drop as rates go up....

In this prolonged artificially low interest rate environment imposed by the Fed, people have forgotten what risk means while  chasing yield.

The most controversial regulation they circumvented was the taxi medallion system, which was an artificial limit on the number of taxis available in any given city (at least how it works in Boston).