Which of the following statements is true according to what you hear?

In several metropolitan areas, from Miami to Riverside, Calif. , where the real estate market is white hot, rapidly rising prices are luring a growing number of ordinary people into buying and selling residences they do not intend to occupy, despite warnings from some economists that prices cannot continue to rise as steeply as they have in the last few years.

The larger, far more important point is that in a society as individualistic as ours, it’s especially important to protect and nurture the countervailing institutions. It’s so easy for the powerful force of individualism to wash over and transform institutions — like family, religion and the military — that are supposed to be based on self-sacrifice, loyalty and love.