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IScreamSundays
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Mon Jan-17-11 08:09 AM Original message |
Housing Market Plunge Passes Depression's |
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ixion
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Mon Jan-17-11 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
1. LOL.. so we're still not being honest and calling it a 'slump'... green shoots! |
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no_hypocrisy
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Mon Jan-17-11 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
2. Are the two eras comparable? The Depression wasn't preceded by a bubble |
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TheEuclideanOne
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Mon Jan-17-11 09:02 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Sorry, not seeing your point. |
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Downwinder
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Mon Jan-17-11 09:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Both involved credit bubbles. |
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pottersvilleusa
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Mon Jan-17-11 10:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. Yes, both involve cycles of loaning money |
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Trajan
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Mon Jan-17-11 09:13 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Does it really matter ? |
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No Elephants
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Mon Jan-17-11 09:26 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Are you sure there was no real estate bubble in tihe Twenties? |
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Javaman
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Mon Jan-17-11 10:27 AM Response to Reply #6 |
14. Remember the movie "coconuts" by the Marx Brothers? |
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fascisthunter
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Mon Jan-17-11 09:38 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. um... there was a bubble before the great depression |
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ixion
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Mon Jan-17-11 09:52 AM Response to Reply #2 |
10. well, the value of stocks have been over-inflated, too... made worse by speculation in housing |
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Javaman
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Mon Jan-17-11 10:25 AM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Do you know what buying on margin means? |
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SoCalDem
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Mon Jan-17-11 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
7. the lead-up to 2006 was irrational exuberance, remember? |
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Rockholm
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Mon Jan-17-11 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
8. Nice to see the doom and gloomers are STILL going after Real Estate. |
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Javaman
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Mon Jan-17-11 10:32 AM Response to Reply #8 |
16. 53 months in decline. |
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girl gone mad
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Tue Jan-18-11 05:39 AM Response to Reply #8 |
19. "It's different here." |
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Rockholm
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Tue Jan-18-11 07:17 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Well, it certainly is. |
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wishlist
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Mon Jan-17-11 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
11. This time more rampant real estate speculation and over development |
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lonestarnot
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Mon Jan-17-11 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
12. Part of it due to out right thievery by the fucking banks. They want it, they just take it. |
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joshcryer
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Mon Jan-17-11 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
15. Good for me. :D |
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Nye Bevan
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Tue Jan-18-11 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
18. Good. Housing prices rose to ridiculously stupid levels |
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mmonk
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Tue Jan-18-11 09:10 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Bad in that prolonged housing slumps keeps job growth down |
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edhopper
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Tue Jan-18-11 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
22. If you look at the basic metrics |
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mdmc
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Fri Jan-21-11 08:39 PM Response to Original message |
23. .. |
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