bust by any name no more housing atm

MSN Money - GM's woes one more blow to housing bubble

One reason why Japan's bust has been as bad as it has is that Japan has had to endure a sizable real-estate bust and a stock-market bust at the same time. Originally, the United States was only dealing with an equity-market bust. But with the Fed trying to bail that bust out with a housing bubble, we, like Japan, will now experience a housing bust and a market bust at the same time.