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2. The 1% felt the recession?

Wed May 30, 2012, 11:37 AM

May 2012

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Pending Sales of U.S. Existing Homes Decline by Most in a Year [View all] Purveyor May 2012 OP

We're still scraping along the bottom of this recession. MadHound May 2012 #1

The 1% felt the recession? WI_DEM May 2012 #2

Mortgage rates are too high cthulu2016 May 2012 #3

People aren't buying them for a number of reasons MadHound May 2012 #4

Out of curiosity... cthulu2016 May 2012 #5

Common sense. MadHound May 2012 #7

The purpose of the low rates is to create inflation cthulu2016 May 2012 #9

You're preaching neoclassical nonsense, imo. girl gone mad May 2012 #19

MadHound was citing the neoclassical nonsense. I was translating it. cthulu2016 May 2012 #21

PS cthulu2016 May 2012 #22

I mean every word of what I wrote. girl gone mad May 2012 #26

Good lord... do you have any thought process at all? cthulu2016 May 2012 #20

People aren't buying because they don't have jobs... Mayflower1 May 2012 #11

Sadly Nuclear Unicorn May 2012 #12

Can you keep a secret? Nuclear Unicorn May 2012 #16

Interesting... because in May the realtors I know can't take a day off... progressivebydesign May 2012 #13

Isolated markets? Hawkowl May 2012 #17

As we all know anecdote is much more important than data AngryAmish May 2012 #18

if we supported the job market, and by aftereffect, worker's wages magical thyme May 2012 #23