Has anyone else paid attention to Housing prices? Wow

You are probably correct but my faith in our govn't , its leaders and the whole world is pretty darn poor today!!!!! If I could just get the wife to retire I would just sell out here and go buy what I (we) want where we want!!!!! ha
You are overthinking the relationship between Politics vs. World economy. The real power and stability is in the money. Politics is just noise, and governed by economics at the end of the day despite political bluster. Big money likes stability and will always overcome politics to keep it that way. Governments, policies and social bias come and go...but financial priorities always march forward to further gain.

If you want to sit on the sidelines with your money, so be it. I would rather grow mine.