He and his moderators seem to have a way of keeping people relaxed and stimulating good conversation where the other boards have seemingly shut people down and made them feel and look foolish for asking questions and suggesting ideas.

Not everyone's cup of tea, but I enjoy it as I don't get a lot of intellectual stimulation elsewhere, teaching 11-year olds all day

I guess it might be possible, but one would hope our President is quite familiar with this REI stimulant and the benefits of it for economic growth of our country.Cheers, Buddy

The combination of the Fed's desire to stimulate lending via cheap money and the government's desire to stimulate the economy by running a huge deficit has made it a great time to be a bank: Banks can borrow from the government at artificially cheap rates and then lend the money back to the Federal government at higher rates, pocketing the difference.

As I have stated in previous posts the best thing that could happen to help stimulate the recovery of the economy would be for the government to disband the National Association of Realtors and their associated State subsidiaries.

Especially if I'm right in assuming that would help stimulate the market's rebound... return confidence to those who can buy but aren't for fear we aren't at the bottom, that they couldn't resell if they had to in 3 or 5 years... allow those who want to move but can't to be able to, to go where jobs are, to go from "under employed" to fully employed... to convince investors who still aren't sure about real estate to chase the market and poor more money into it...

If that happens, it will probably stimulate the economy.What I mean is it gives people a choice to re-invest or to buy a Luxury Yacht, or a new Mercedes AMG.On the political side they are probably doing it to increase the tax draw so they can have more money and control who gets it when it is distributed vs stimulating the economy.In reality the 1031 is a pain due to the rules, but it does allow faster accumulation of wealth than if you paid taxes on it.In many areas the basic necessity of food is sales tax free, they should make all income from the basic necessity of housing (real estate) tax free--like tips used to be.

Congratulations, that means you are a rich man, because only those could benefit from Bush's stimulate package, Oh, and if you're talking about that $300 or $600 tax rebate, what a waste of money that was...

We hope that our lending platform will get people buying RE again in large numbers, create jobs, and stimulate the economy, so we can get out of this recession.Look forward to chatting with everyone.

now go stimulate the economy with that extra $8k!