This is an interesting thread.I count financial independence as 'not needing to work any more', and I think it is possible, but only if you had a MASSIVE windfall, split the money into lots of different places, and lived simply.I'm surprised to read people saying their wants could expand to fill their income.

Warren Buffet is buying and unless you are a folol, he is a man to be listened to.

The government encouraged this malinvestment on a massive scale and eventually the economic fundamentals simply caught up with us.

A few years ago a company I worked with did the premium texts thing (text a name of a product to a number to get a brief review sent back to you) - it was profitable, but not a massive success - maybe now that texts are cheaper it may be more popular.

If my own business dries up, I don't want to have massive amounts of debt to the point my back breaks.

That's going to take a non-trivial company to handle a batch like that.Could, though, turn into a massive, fairly quick selloff.

Buffet is right about the credit market-as bad as the stock market seems right now, stocks are doing MUCH better than the credit market.

I am interested to see how far people are predicting residential real estate price valuations to drop during this crunch and period of great instability.

I see it as being massive personally. If you look at inflatio...

Or Warren Buffet."

The larger complexes always seem to have overflowing dumpsters, abandoned cars and MASSIVE keggers that need to be maintained by the police on a weekly basis.Steven, not being allowed to rent your home really takes the cake.