There are many economic factors that might have possibly driven the housing boom, all of which are bo-ring. House Lust: America's Obsession With Our Homes, a new book by Newsweek reporter Daniel McGinn, reveals the truth: it was actually driven by idiots with a herdlike, pathological need to fixate on every aspect of their home, much like Freud's analysis of anal-retentive children examining their own feces. Actual quote: "My house is really pretty, with plenty of room, but it just doesn't do it for me... my artistic imagination isn't lit up by it—it's too much 'practical,' and not enough 'dreamy.'" Here's to the idiot in all of us—now, I'm off to look at Floor Plan Porn on Curbed!