Until the year 2000, the United States was ranked 3d in economic freedom, an important component of economic growth according to any economist I view as honest.

As for boom-and-bust cycles, economists call that 'creative destruction'.

I better keep up with all these cool new economists on MSNBC.

Ivy league economists with PhD's have studied this stuff, there is a science behind it, and it doesn't involve guessing.

In the longrun this will be difficult to sustain but as Keynes (the economist) said "in the long run we are all dead."  

@Jack CloughI'm no economist nor do I pretend to be, so let me get that out of the way. 

Like I️ said before read the book Big Shifts Ahead by John Burns, lead economist for Fannie Mae.

Economists were then reporting that during the crash of 2007 / 2008, some 80% of builders and developers went out of business.

Some experts are lowering their expectations.https://fortune.com/2022/09/25/these-210-housing-markets-are-now-vulnerable-to-20-25-home-price-declines-finds-moodys-latest-downgrade/@Russell Brazil @James HamlingThat’s the thing with moody’s…they have actual economists who look at things like interest rates, and forecast that into the models.

My answer (and that of several economists): anything but real estate.