Moral of the story: Sometimes it takes your passion for a cause bigger than yourself to get you to overcome the fear that can hold you back.

In your professional opinion, do you find anything wrong morally or legally with the practices Conti is teaching?

Maybe in 1993 or 1994… Moral of the story… Don’t take advice from someone who doesn’t know or understand what it is that you do… And be nice to the guy with the $10 haircut, because he is a nice guy too!

What's worse is that many all too many people now believe that the real estate bust was the result of an unbridled free market run amok when in fact it was the result of the inherent moral hazard of simultaneously encouraging the "ownership society" through a Federal Reserve policy of artificially low interest rates and government bailouts, quasi-government corporations backing loans, and other tinkering to prop up an otherwise slumping market.

The olympics are there in 2 years, too, which will boost more economic drive!

Jeff, Rentals are a great way to boost your net worth but you need to make sure you know what you are doing before you jump in.

The morale of the story for all others reading is "know your state laws and make an educated decision that makes business sense to you."

Everyone cries "lack of ethics" and "lack of morals", etc, etc...

The Government has also changed its tune on who to bail out based on the amount of short term loans outstanding to protect MM's-so moral of the story is, MM's are going to be safe.

It's not sold as giving a boost to the economy, but rather preventing a crisis in our economy...