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"New home sales fall a SURPRISING 3.6 percent": Yahoo!

  1. fishskinfreak2008 profile image94
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    Whether this is surprising or not, this should be another slap in the face for CHINA, the country that insists that the financial crisis is now over.

    Posted 5 weeks ago
  2. ledefensetech profile image90
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    There's nothing surprising about it.  Once the stimulus money is gone, the economy slumps again.  Looks like all that stimulus money has been wasted because there is no real recovery.  Oops.

    Posted 5 weeks ago
  3. Flightkeeper profile image93
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    Why would the media call it surprising.  They're in the news business, they know unemployment is high, they know that businesses are closing, they know that with all the sales that profits are down.  Do they think people are too stupid to see the manipulation?  If the media was any further up Obama's ass he doesn't have to worry about calling them to show up for a press briefing.

    Posted 5 weeks ago
  4. Mark Knowles profile image100
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    fishskinfreak2008 wrote:

    Whether this is surprising or not, this should be another slap in the face for CHINA, the country that insists that the financial crisis is now over.

    Surprising? Deary me. How many million foreclosures on the books? And new home sales fall? Shock horror!

    Posted 5 weeks ago
  5. TimTurner profile image71
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    Mark Knowles wrote:

    fishskinfreak2008 wrote:

    Whether this is surprising or not, this should be another slap in the face for CHINA, the country that insists that the financial crisis is now over.

    Surprising? Deary me. How many million foreclosures on the books? And new home sales fall? Shock horror!

    It's surprising because I believe it rose last month.

    Posted 5 weeks ago
  6. ledefensetech profile image90
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    TimTurner wrote:

    It's surprising because I believe it rose last month.

    That was because of the $8,000 dollar tax credit to people who bought a home.  Once that went away, gee look, demand fell.  There was no real recovery.

    Posted 5 weeks ago
  7. habee profile image96
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    We're looking for a good cave to purchase.

    Posted 4 weeks ago
  8. Jeffrey Neal profile image91
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    habee wrote:

    We're looking for a good cave to purchase.

    Here you go, habee...a cool 2 million gets you this one in AZ:
    http://thecavehouse.com/ wink

    Posted 4 weeks ago
  9. habee profile image96
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    Thanks, Jeffrey. I was thinking of one in the Southeast. There's a big one in Tennessee with a huge underground lake full of blind trout. They'd probably be pretty easy to catch.

    Oh, and by the way, will you loan me the $2 mil? lol

    Posted 4 weeks ago
  10. wsp2469 profile image67
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    The truth of the matter is that homes have always been too expensive.  Considering that any idiot who can pass a simple test after taking a class can SELL you an over-priced house this shouldn't be surprising.
    Personally, I don't think you should be able to make a lot of money selling ANYthing that is essential to sustaining life.  I don't care if this IS America.  there should be more laws and regulations regarding the sale of food, shelter and water.
    Now that the dumbasses who tried to make a profit on selling homes (instead of just buying one to live in)have gotten into trouble and all the people who really should not have been given mortgages in the first place have gone under people are getting smarter during these hard times.

    Posted 4 weeks ago
  11. habee profile image96
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    Hey, Jeffro - I just fanned you and discovered you're from the Southeast, also! Why for you tryeth to selleth me cave in West??

    Posted 4 weeks ago
  12. Jeffrey Neal profile image91
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    habee wrote:

    Hey, Jeffro - I just fanned you and discovered you're from the Southeast, also! Why for you tryeth to selleth me cave in West??

    Hmmm, I didn't know about the one in TN.  Now where is that number for my stinkin' broker? mad lol

    Thanks for fanning me!

    Posted 4 weeks ago
  13. Ghost32 profile image95
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    Well, at least I know I did not contribute to new home sales.  Got a new home in the works, all right, but I'm building it on bare land, by hand, single handed.  Don't think that'll help those government numbers  one bit.

    Posted 4 weeks ago
 
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