A healthy Manufacturing means jobs lifts the entire manufacturing base and the people employed by them and other support services and people who are employed buy homes.Had it not been for the bailout of GM and Chrysler the entire Mid_west would have collapsed.

Mortgage rates have done an admiral job of staving off the pain of ever increasing house prices, but they can only go so far, and they already are at record lows.Without an economic collapse, I don't see house prices reversing trend.Higher rates will likely slow the economy, but not collapse it.I've always thought that the purchasing power was the key metric when considering to buy or not.

The big question is who is going to do all of this construction, our local government chased out all of the builders that the great financial collapse didn't already squash. 

Now the next collapse of his reality hits... his son is born into turmoil.

Ask anyone who invested right before a collapse in housing, and they'll tell you investing in real estate is a bad idea.  

(equipment expensive and not all journeyman purchase)  There was a collapsed line of about 2 ft(slab house)...So it was a fairly easy fix, after founding the main problem...The camera painted the entire picture..Best trouble shooter...GL

What does everyone think about the talked about upcoming economic collapse?

Obamacare collapse?

It was great having an in-unit laundry.The advantage is that it IS all one unit - no relying on shelves or mounting racks which might collapse or tip over.If you can truly find stackables (new?)

That 15-month build-up was a real slow-motion event, not an illusion.But the panic returned in the spring with the failure of Bear Stearns in March 2008, followed by the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in June.