I’m not a economist, hence the questions). 

Look, I'm not an economist, but I did study economics, and all this I am saying is a combination of life business experience and that economics study and basic principles, all of which are and have proved true over and over again.

Not even economists can predict inflation well, especially more than say 2-3 years in the future. 

A big chunk of the housing shortage goes back to the Crash of '07 / '08 when, according to the economists of the day, 80% of builders and developers went bankrupt once the supply of new mortgage lending dried up.A good solution - though not the only one, certainly - would be to get home building back on track.

Then again, I'm not an economist and I don't pretend to be an expert on this complicated game.Bottom line, I continue to invest in as well as find profitable deals for clients, through it all, which requires adapting to current market and interest rates as well as STR supply/demand with shifting strategies.

Corona virus only magnified and accelerated what economist were already seeing fundimentally wrong with U.S.

Interest rates are historically very low and many economist believe that inflation is coming.

Better than my friends that graduated as Economists.

There have been recessions and bear markets.Yes, I would agree that the arrival of a flu pandemic on our shores was likely not the method by which the casual observer or even seasoned economists would have guessed as the trigger for our current economic situation.

We’d be ignorant and foolish to expect to do better than Harvard economists and the Federal government, haha.