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In reply to the discussion: Wisconsin Recap: Thanks to Obama, American Left Lies in Smoldering Wreckage [View all]Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)29. Actually Greenspan's
monetary policy did indeed create the bubble known as "home equity" value.... Many people recognized that Greenspan was creating a dangerous bubble in credit of which the housing bubble was part and parcel. People who have owned real estate over the past 4 decades knew it was happening....many just didn't care. Whenever interest rates are low housing prices go up and when interest rates are high, housing prices tank. The Fed's current refusal to raise interest rates is to keep people in the stock market and to keep housing prices from tanking even more.
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Wisconsin Recap: Thanks to Obama, American Left Lies in Smoldering Wreckage [View all]
abelenkpe
Jun 2012
OP
meeting their needs is precisely the point. they haven't been. that's not a fault of the union
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#44
He used the same time machine that allowed him to fake that Hawaiian birth announcement.
Orsino
Jun 2012
#68
It must be a lot of fun for paid 'liberal' bloggers to write something like this,
Avalux
Jun 2012
#21
I was trying to be facetious about Greenspan. Of course, his monetary
coalition_unwilling
Jun 2012
#30
The sentiment and language in the title of this OP is absolutely WRONG and total CRAP !
RBInMaine
Jun 2012
#39
Tough to strike in front of closed, empty factories. People honk at you, call you homeless. n/t
jtuck004
Jun 2012
#54
There were fewer of those 40 years ago when this trend began. Gee, maybe there's a
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#56
yes, it's another one of those books feeding people corporate-think disguised as self-help.
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#59
i say pull your head out to people who believe winning comes from the politics of concession &
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#61
i don't even know what smw is. if you want someone to read something, you should link it.
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#63
You're right. I arched and shouldn't have. I apologize. SMW is Stock Market Watch on DU,
jtuck004
Jun 2012
#64