First, realize that Keynes was not anti-free market -- he just came up with most of his ideas during the Depression, where his theories focused on how to attack high unemployment and tended to be pretty insightful.

Double digit gain from the first quarter to the last 5 minutes and Kansas gets to trail by 9, a mental barrier broken by the double digit depression.

This depends on your ability/desire for different things.I like flipping and being a landlord, so I would dedicate about 50-60K to acquiring rentals (get some passive income coming in) and the other 40-50K towards a flip or two (work on a big pay-day so you can do it all again).A split approach allows you to focus on both the short-term and long-term (short-term = flips, long-term = rentals).I'm not uber familiar with MI real estate, but my impression is that it is a little more depressed than a lot of other states/areas.

Check out "The Great Depression Ahead" by Harry Dent.

Thus a bad non-paying tenant in an SFR meant no help with the mortgage payments for AT LEAST 6 months.But it seems with the depressed housing market for sales, increased tenant pool resulting in rising rents, advancements in technology used to screen tenants and a more 'pro-landlord' court that has shortened the eviction time down to 2-3 months, SFR's as rentals are getting a second look.

That was depressing.

If people get greedy (lenders in 2005) the economy is meant to go into a depression or recession to correct the natural flow.Big companies that got too greedy are meant to fail and go bankrupt.

Everyone was greedy and like the Tulip bulbs of Holland- There is great depression following a giant run-up.

It also seems like the banks don't want to dump a bunch of properties at the same time and depress prices even further.

It's easy to make any real estate graph go up when you started your company in one of the most depressed markets in decades.