On the other hand, Snohomish County's asking price remained stable, and Pierce County saw a slight increase of 0.3%.Looking ahead, Lawrence Yun, the chief economist at the National Association of Realtors, predicts a more favorable market on the horizon.

I'm hearing from economists, this is akin to a Cat 5 Hurricane hitting every major city in America.

If new construction slows you drive prices up because inventory drops, so there is only so high the FED can go before our inventory becomes worse.I know some of you economists out there are screaming but the point of this post was to touch on a few of the basic principles that were are currently facing.Many believe that the FED is either done raising rates or they do one more increase come November but I would bet that will be the peak.

I’m getting information from economists that we will see for sure 7+ if not in the 8’s!  

I see a lot of posts on Bigger Pockets talking about different hot markets and Charlotte is frequently mentioned.  Here is an interesting article with a really cool graphic illustrating Charlotte's projected growth th...

I'm no economist either.

In my area there are about 150 Real Estate investors in the local REIA club but only about 20 of them are serious investors.Wasn't that theorized by some economist?

I neither agree nor disagree with your findings because I'm neither a demographer nor an economist, but I do see a lot of the usual suspects on your top ten list (although Detroit was a surprise but understandable).  

Bill I don't know if you know of Bruce Norris  however he is a well followed investor/hml  and economist out of inland empire CA.he gave a key note 2 years ago at an event I was speaking at as well.. 

Economists say in every recession we have had in the past, they were all marked by this inversion of the yield curve.