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What do the economic tea leaves predict now????

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Education & Training with Independent Leadership & Financial Fitness Consultant

So the market is up 170 points today.  The Fed has promised to do what ever it takes to keep credit markets in play....see report , and consumer spending is through the roof....see report  .  Hasn't anyone heard that we're in the worst real estate market in over 16 years and it could easily equal the greatest real estate slide in over a hundred years!  What's going on folks?  

I've been bombarded with bad news through CNN, MSN, CBS and Fox.  Real Estate depression, credit crunch, mortgage company's going out of business, mortgage loan officers going to jail. But the average American hasn't worried, folks it's Christmas time!! It only comes once a year!!  It's time to SPEND...SPEND....SPEND!!!! 

So are we in as deep sushi as the media experts on wall street think?  Or is this market really a measurement of demographics, and are we just delaying the inevitable reckoning that we're all going to pay in the end?

Not to put a damper on Holiday cheer, but reality is that either the economy is something independent of rational thought or reason, or we're just putting on hold the great day of reckoning!  I know that religious folk have predicted that we're at the end of days, but they've said that for over a hundred years.   Could they be right?  Or is this just a small bump in the road, or does the public even care at this point.

It's obvious that this Christmas will be a merry one.  Plenty of electronic toys and gadgets, plus anything else we need at this time of year.  American consumerism is not slowing down for any supposed bad news.  It's still party time, why worry about a little problem in the real estate market.

 

 

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Comments (3)

Bill Gillhespy
16 Sunview Blvd - Fort Myers Beach, FL
Fort Myers Beach Realtor, Fort Myers Beach Agent - Homes & Condos
Hi Karl,  Lots of doom and gloom available for the taking isn't there ?  Sounds like more positive economic news is starting to push the bad stuff off the national news.  I suspect that many in the media are soooo   disappointed !
Dec 21, 2007 04:26 AM
Jason Smith
DreamDirt Auction - Mondamin, IA
I'm voting for a bump in the road.  I wouldn't subscribe to the thought the world is coming to an end for sure. 
Dec 21, 2007 04:27 AM
K C
Independent Leadership & Financial Fitness Consultant - Pleasant Grove, UT

Bill, I think your right, but the piper will get his due eventually.  With the consumer debt that allot of people are carrying right now, the piper will be those who can't refi these credit card debts through available equity.  The problem is that the stuff hasn't hit the fan yet when it comes to more recent debt refi's.

 

Jason, I would agree the end isn't here, but people will have to become "smarter" in the way's they manage their incomes. And now incomes will have to REALLY increase before you'll see a REAL increase in property values.  You guy's in the Midwest have been much more conservative and should be looked at as a model of what REAL markets should be like.  The big market's were an aberration of what Reality really should be like.

 

Dec 21, 2007 07:10 AM