@Brandon RushMost of the time posts like these end up irritating me.

In October/Nov gas prices will go down, student loan will be forgiven, rates will be cut a few times (although not anything meaningful), cpi or whatever flavor of the month that’s used to calculate inflation will be down, cash payments will be in discussion for people, border crossings will be down, truce will be brokered in Middle East,funding for police will be on table, our streets will be safer, it will be “cold and flu season”, certain political parties will be against voter rights and anti everything. 

Sometimes I say a couple, if they are irritating I say well let me see, then I hold my hands up and appear to mentally counting houses moving my fingers, I make a big production of doing mental math and take about a minute get to my last finger and say well more than 10.

Hell the US is trying so hard we've managed to rid the country of the flu for the first time in decades. 

Then we can go to said other site IF we have any interest in all that.It was such a wonderful site when the blog and forum were completely REI focused... now there is a massive overload of information that makes it kind of stressful, overwhelming, and irritating.

Folks using 2008 as a mirror of what can /did happen is a mistake.Mainly because 2008 crash was from massive amount of bad mortgage loans/fraud that shook the foundations of huge wall street banks that had bad investments i.e. mortgage /insurance Derivatives on such loans around the world it spread like the flu of 1918 around the world.I just don’t see the real-estate getting slammed like that again the loans on the books mostly are solid loans.Still a great demand for homes here below 300k, builders not keeping up or not wanting to keep up?

@Joe SplitrockI agree, it irritates me when people use 1 or 2 people on this planet as an example and extrapolate that idea to justify their actions and think it will work for them and the other 7 billion people.

This post will Irritate 2 types of people.The bank lovers VS The cash lovers.

Just as you are on your statement about all of their products being cheap and made in China.Not sure what your issue is with the company, or a certain person that irritated you or whatever, but spreading lies and misinformation doesn’t support your case as “fact”, no matter how you want to spin it or place it in a semi-humorous pop culture context.

The only metric useful to compare investments is IRR. It