These are grim numbers but everyone was saying that 2008 was going to be an implosion and look 8 years later - high home prices, high rents, people paying cash for homes, blah blah. It seems to have re-propped itself up.
It can re-prop itself up as much as it wants, but the fact of the matter is there is no way that we can go for multiple decades without there being some major implosion of the economy like the one we saw in 2008 and what we may see soon.
Like what was said before in this topic; an economy built on infinite growth cannot be sustained.
High home prices, high rents, cash for homes (which I have to see an example of) are all because of bubbles in the market and/or quantitative easing which devalues the crap out of a currency.
Having a house worth $600k when it was worth $200k five years ago means nothing if there is 300% more money in the economy.