Add seven years for history's sake, and one might erroneously assume we are coming out of the "down cycle. " Then, lets add for a few additional culprits: easy money (our old pal), over development (another old pal), consumer confidence, global markets, technology, emerging markets, government regulation, consumer paradigm shifts, unemployment, aging infrastructures, and political paralysis, to name a few; and we can easily argue for 8, 9, 10 years of down cycle.

This morning, in conjunction with Chris Clothier and the Memphis Invest team, we released an important study of real estate investors, their intentions, and their impact on the housing marketplace.The study was conducted by a leading global market research firm, ORC International, which has conducted the CCN|ORC International poll since 2007.

Since we don't make the things we use, our standard of living is going to keep going down until we're below average in the global economy.

I have clients locally, nationally, and globally that I work with.

It could be a plan by the few people that really control the world's money to promote global socialism - if so, that's working.

I am against this Bailout Plan because there exist better alternatives to its overall structure as it relates to timing, magnitude and the methodology of attacking the current economic problem.The “emergency†plan was introduced with an overwhelming sense of urgency as the solution to the global credit freeze that would inevitably lead to wide spread job losses, increased home foreclosures and an annihilation of investor confidence.

If we see that again it will be because the global economy is in big trouble.

A very industrious and vibrant city, which I see crazy potential in.

I manage up to $10M global supply chain implementations for the Government in my 'other' career.

Mark Updegraff Sounds like a great location, vibrant!