Keeping that in mind, suggesting that someone must fail in order for another to succeed would be like placing an artificial limit on success. 

Anyone here ever change their bushes and lawns for low maintenance or artificial alternatives?

This artificial inflation was specific to mostly Northeastern and Western properties.

•Unemployment on every front is rising. market that has bottomed. •Tax receipts are down and State Governments are suffering. •The debt market, except that artificially supported by the Government is closed. •Earnings estimates for the S&P 500 are down 60% year-over-year. •Stocks (using the Dow as a proxy) are at the same level they were 10 years ago. •Industrial Production around the globe is imploding.

This is because the stock market is being influenced by artificial methods of the federal treasury, creating billions of dollars in a program known as Quantitative Easing.

Deadlines are intentionally and artificially compressed to create tension and drama.

The housing market is being pumped up artificially by quantitative easing and low interest rates.

Wanna add few things here, any asset going up or down really depends on the supply side.Public stock supply really depends on the number of shares available, however most company increases the stock price these days by buyback (funded by cheap credit) which artificially inflate the price and issues more stocks.

*Google is very serious about creating artificial intelligence.  

Artificial economic factors will cause economic outcomes that deviate from natural market equilibrium.