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  • Posted By: kingofithaki @ 11/19/2007 2:40:22 AM

    Comment: when we practice to deceive...Mr. Talbot would luv4 everyone to let his old friends at G/S manage their money via the brilliant idea of giving your money to wall street so that they can invest it with communist dictators in china...pooh pooh on the idea that non ivy league graduates wont throw their money away on rent...oh me oh my...lets see...of the 150 major markets in the us of a, only 50 are in any kind of trouble...run 4 the hills

  • Posted By: Candy Barr @ 11/19/2007 1:24:40 AM

    Comment: Yes, we all knew that prices had to come down at some point . . . I can't wait until they return to the 1997 levels, though. At least, that is what I hope. With three degrees, and soon a fourth, I still can't afford housing in my hometown of San Jose, CA. I wish I had known then what I know now.

  • Posted By: DeltaRambler @ 11/18/2007 11:22:51 PM

    Comment: It really didn't take too much intelligence to realize that the housing market was headed for a very stressful downward readjustment as home prices continued to soar into the stratosphere when there was no real increase in value, just a huge inflation of what people were willing to pay buoyed by an insane subprime loan policy. It is all part of the disastrous lack of fiscal planning of this wretched, incompetent administration.



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