No, Avas did not cause the housing bubble. As this graph clearly shows, people with large home equity lines of credit were just three times as likely to nae their kid Ava. Way to look through the wrong end of the telescope, Business Week!
Correlation or Causation? [businessweek via boingboing]
Don't remind me- I shorted Emma big time in '08, but there appears to be no top to that market.