Around 40% of our wealth goes to the various forms of government and government-influenced organizations.

The emotional sentiment seems to be that the rest of the world is anticipating how Obama will serve them and yes Bono confirmed that the Nobel was foreigners attempting to use the prize to influence a US policy maker's decision making process.

realtors typically have much more influence than an investor.even though we as investors have(at least should have) the owners best interest in mind and be attempting to create win-wins, i think there sometimes is a bit of apprehension from the owner to work directly with an investor.

Josh,Any chance on using your influence to get some of the experienced BP members to invest a set amount of time in some of the chats once in a while?

So, you'd be okay with foreign countries (say, China) influencing our elections by donating large sums of money to one candidate (or set of candidates)?

Rich Dad influences you to spread your resources way too thin.

"Over the longer term, it is unclear how the impending reform of the housing finance system, (...) will influence the cost and availability of mortgage loans.The number of rental households accelerated in the second half of the last decade, swelling by an estimated 3.9 million between 2004 and 2010 but rental vacancy rates increased and rents fell during the same period as new units were added and homes were converted from ownership to rentals.

how much of the market is influenced by investors?

Considered changeable sizes of humans, from giants to nanos and not just in the virtual worlds....But closer to here now, I think of the new building materials and how those might influence prices of RE in general, not just construction...Also pondered on the unprecedented inflow of human creativity today and how it could influence the very game of investing.

We might be scrapping the entire influence and awards system and could rebuild them from scratch; it seems that our current system uses a model of thinking that just doesn't accurately reflect anything but who is active on the system and who has best figured out how to gain points.