Manhattan is definitely not a 2% city and has a very healthy economy.

Healthy food after that. 

Layoffs assist in what is more or less an accounting trick to help make the company look more financially healthy than it is.

The person who will do all the work can increase his or her share with an objective analysis of the deal that requires a healthy amount of high school-level math, but that is otherwise not complicated.

I can't emphasis having a healthy emergency fund enough!

For me, that is when there is a lot of speculation in the RE market without underlying value and healthy market conditions.

Luxury good spending is up 8% year over year, credit card debt is down over 1/3, savings rates are still very healthy - down 2% in the last six months but still historically very high, home equity has gone up something like 10 trillion dollars nationally in the last year.

Which is a healthy sign for the local area.Let me know what you think!

I don't read all the subforums, I just read the three pages of "trending topics", so I don't know all the posters, just the most prolific onesalso, I don't read all topics, so I really couldn't tell you the "all-stars"I just know who I will ALWAYS read their posts carefully, and almost always learn something from themand they are @jay Hinrichs, @mike dymski, and @brian burkein the same category, but in addition, I almost always smile or chuckle when I read their posts, is @thomas s.there are many more that I am forgetting, but those are the ones that stand out to meI am on a few forums, but this one I am probably the most quiet on, I try to just read and absorb, and chime in where I can, but not very often.

As a point  of reference, 6-months is viewed as a "healthy" or balanced - meaning not a buyer's or seller's - market.