In the States, the Huffington Post has a reputation for digging deeper and rewarding readers with a reveal they won't find elsewhere. This - on house prices - isn't a great start for the UK version. Yes, the newspapers largely take a one-sided view of house prices; no, wildly inflating property prices that leave wages behind are not a good thing; yes, it's an iniquitous situation for a generation of first-time buyers. But to suggest these aren't issues most intelligent readers haven't already considered is patronising, and to suggest business/the economy would profit from a "crash" - hurling countless hard-working young families like the author's own into negative equity; leaving older people unable to cash in and pay for care/their old age - is silly. Nobody profits from a "crash". Except the author, perhaps.

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