My impression was that the market was at significant risk of dropping to new dot-com crash lows on the probability that the government was going to nationalize the banks, certainly including Bank of America.

"With two missile strikes over the past week, the Obama administration has expanded the covert war run by the Central Intelligence Agency inside Pakistan, attacking a militant network seeking to topple the Pakistani government.""

Is it just the fact that people don't like the control and regulations the government could impose once they take these banks over?

But this is destructive and a direct breach by the Fed government of contract law and interfering with state's activity.

What the government knows, but is not willing to say is that our country is broke.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090225/us_nm/us_wgtrading :cool: Shoot the fraud that the American government is doing dwarfs even Madoff's.

I'd start researching if you can get some help from the local government with zoning and planning.

I expect the college population to jump for the next few years - there's going to be buckets of government money for higher ed.

Because of our government, we know that eventually interest rates, taxes, and inflation are going to go up, up, up.

Not to mention, they are dealing with the fallout of falling prices combined with local (and state and national) governments assumptions prices would rise forever.