This is your protection against DEFLATION or complete collapse.2.

They feel that they have to be "cheerleaders" for the economy even when it's about to collapse as Bush did six months before the dreadful 15th of September 2008http://www.youtube.com/watch?

Having said that, the likelihood is that it will continue dropping, but I wouldn't attribute today's free-fall to the "collapse of the American economy"...

It is would be a major mistake for our policy-makers to assume that the Chinese phenomenon is a temporary thing that will collapse.

I thought the world of the National Association of Realtors had collapsed and owner could now list their own properties on the MLS without a listing agent....but after reading the posts, all is well!

Whether it turns out to be a bubble and collapses six months from now is irrelevant.

This is part of the reason for the overspending, compulsive shopping and other imprudent economic activities.The book I am referring to is this one:http://www.amazon.com/Bowling-Alone-Collapse-American-Community/dp/0743203046If Josh sets up an affiliate account for BP, the site can earn revenues from people buying stuff on Amazon based on the recommendations of posters.

We are in the midst of a major recession brought on by the collapse of the housing market.

I believe that it will be the investor that pulls our collapsing housing market out of the nose dive that it is in.

and then there is integrity, there are always a way around the rules and the triple A stamp by Moodys and thus the RE market collapse, I'd never do business with someone that thinks that they are so smart that they can outsmart the system, that is dishonest, we have rules for a reason, and unfortunately we have to lock our front doors because of people who technically, walked in because some trusting idiot left their front door unlocked.