You might have candy for diabetics, that is low calorie, might have some fruit treat that is even healthy.Not so much about candy stores, but what is your business ethic?

Perhaps not as far, or as fast, but then their government is more unstable than ours, so they need stability at least as much as we do.Having said that, we do really need to work on the trade and budget deficits.

If our government does not stop this crazy spending, and cut the 12 trillion dollar deficit (it does not seem they are slowing down anytime soon) the dollar is going to be worthless and our country will be on the brink of bankruptcy.Just looking for some thoughts on this in regards to real estate.

If inflation does kick up, which is entirely possible given the huge US deficits (inflation makes those debts cheaper to repay), then owning some property gives you protection.Buying with leverage is a two-edged sword.

I suspect that dollar valuation will be brought down to improve trade deficit, and more importantly to help revive our manufacturing sector and create jobs. there is a reason that China will continue to fund our debt and keep the Yuan artificially low and you can see the latest push out of Washington to change that.

While you can do that with stocks (margin), you broker will sell your shares to cover the deficit before it gets too bad.On top of it, it sounds like you're in the hole month to month.Are these recourse loans or non-recourse?

Fast forward a copule years, now they are in a huge budget deficit and requesting tax increases on everythingbfrom sales tax to property transfer tax.

It all comes down to the calorie/pound/dollar obviously Jay

We have been told this occurred because eCheckIt’s processor Check Commerce placed a hold on its funds as a result of deficits incurred by other clients of eCheckit, not eRentPayment.com.

Currently the unemployment is lower than 5%, this is due to many plants and factories in need of workers and the housing is at about an 800 unit deficit (with 2 new complexes).