Picking a stock actually requires you to analyze an enormous amount of data and vastly increases your knowledge of the global economy.

Originally posted by Tom Cullen: Recently quack man-made global warming pseudo-scientists were exposed purging and fudging data on TMWP in an attempt to explain it away.

Personally I'm less worried about a revolution and food riots here, than the global power struggle that is ensuing all around us both economically as well as the military positioning and buildups.

As bad as the publicly traded SFR REITS have been beat up by Wall Street since their IPOs for poor execution of their models and failure to make it into the black at their quarterly reports, I don't think anyone is going to make the argument that they are less competent than subprime borrowers.Absent some massive scale fraud or global collapse of the US or worldwide economy (and again, we did both of these things with subprime, so its not entirely out of the question), I think that the securitization of rental cash flows will provide more liquidity to a market that could certainly use it, and have a net positive effect on the economy.

My extensive real estate investing got a significant boost years ago when my company, now called Global Strategies Group Ltd, syndicated the old Smith-Reynolds Ranch, Summit County, Colorado which then became the Ponderosa Ranch.

I have been software engineer working for global software company in Redmond, but few years ago, I have started business in auto industry and was able to quit my day job.

.- Our work force is spread out globally, but not all of our people can telecommute.

BTW, The foreclosure steps now contain 37 pieces of gum and counting :mrgreen:

And beyond that we have a global credit crisis that has just begun to rear its ugly head.Empowering BK judges to cram down several thousand sub prime mortgages will be inconsequential to all concerned.It is just another feeble effort put forth by bureaucrats attempting to control the uncontrollable.

Nevertheless, according to some analysts, it can allegedly have negative implications for the global property market as investors tend 'to redirect their funds into more lucrative segments (e. g., stock markets)' where there are better short term profit expectations.