One contrarian analyst sees China as a house of cards waiting to collapse.

There are other examples of govt. collapse such as Rome in the 300's (that was currency debasing), France did it twice in the 1700's, Argentina in the 1990's, and most recently in Zimbabwe.

China is going to collapse... how will that impact US?

BPOs are typically just drive bys, they aren't paid enough to get out of the car for more than a couple snap shots.We should all be grateful for honest BPOs and Appraisals without selfish greed playing into the numbers, lest we go deeper into a national financial collapse.

After the collapse, let's take our country back!

There have been a number of threads started on BP that talk about the housing market collapse not leading to increased occupancy in rentals.

I'm hoping that this will so shock the American people once the economy collapses that socialism will be dead for a long, long time!

I was just thinking whether the total collapse in timeshare prices is an investment opportunity worth pursuing or not.The funny thing is that a typical condo of a quality similar to the timeshares here goes for about $500,000 or so.

This is an off topic section, so your political views are ok here, but may be restricted to the middle east because of remaining on topic of the original post.To that extent I can not understand your statement that Perhaps im a bit shallow or near sighted, but that directly does not affect American people, other than the husbands, brothers, wives lost for such a cause. because there were an awful lot of american people lost in the world trade center when it collapsed.

Robert Shiller thinks we may be doing just that.US Housing Market Could Be Facing Another Bubble: ShillerThe housing market, which already has been battered by the worst collapse since the Great Depression, could be setting itself for another bubble, well-known economist Robert Shiller told CNBC.With home affordability at a 40-year high, there is "absolutley" a possibility that the housing market will face another bubble in the next five years, said Shiller, an economics professor at Yale, co-founder of MacroMarkets and co-developer of the monthly Case-Shiller home price index."