This is something that has been keeping me wondering for years. Since the financial crisis the European Central Bank has basically fixed base rate at negative (since 2012), leaving the market flooded with desperate investment money (due to all old school investment options becoming a negative) Now also of course since it's "cheap" the real estate prices have almost doubled in that timespan, having previously hovered around the same mark for the ten years before that.

What I wonder is - is there any way out of this curse of growth with all the money spent into those inflated prices at this point that does not mean complete economic collapse?