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As an aside, I don't know if they make one, but wouldn't a Sim Religion package be cool? Just like the Sims, but one person would play God, and another would play Satan, and you'd both play within certain parameters to try to bend the Sim World to your philosophy. I'm sure there would be a...

Don't know why they jump to that conclusion. Maybe we are hard-wired that way. But imagine if you were some formless intelligent being and you did create some types of creatures. How would you interface with them? I would think that you'd take a form that they could understand. But if I'm...

Here's the one that gets me: There is a barren planet. No life. Nothing but rocks, water, wind, lightning, and static electricity. OK, so there are some complex carbons sitting next to each other. I guess they would have to coincidently be laying next to each other such that they would...

http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/106257/How-Long-Will-the-Recession-Last?

One is a commodity, and the other is a part ownership in a profit-making enterprise. Plot both of them over the long term adjusted to inflation and you'll quickly see that (with the exception of the lunacy of the last year or so) the very long term trend shows the stocks moving up, and the...

Its interesting because one fellow here just said that it was going to be a recession on Wall Street and a Depression on Main Street. I think its the other way around. We've got a Depression on Wall Street, but a light recession on Main Street. And things seem to be improving on Main Street...

Neither me, nor my neighbor, would have to enter into those transactions unless we wanted to (sans divorce, death, etc.). And FWIW, I'd pay 25% more for my house if my payment was a net 5% lower because money was cheap. Likewise, my neighbor might be very happy to sell for 5% less than I paid...

Define true value. So you're saying that cheap money caused the bubble. So can you unwind the bubble burst with more cheap money? I say yes. Here's my thoughts...even if misguided. I think that the dramatic decrease in the price of housing is what is causing the pain...not the decrease...

All true. You've underscored my point that the government can take a role in effecting housing prices in the upward direction. Thank you. Which brings us full circle on the original question. Why doesn't the government do something that will keep the housing prices propped up? And what is...

So...if the government were to implement economic incentives to increase the demand for housing, thereby increasing the property values, that would be ignorant?

Ditto that. The irony is that the article says this will do little to help those with bad credit. Not entirely true. If the demand for housing goes up, it will increase the value of houses across the board and create more jobs. Lots of people with bad credit would still benefit under that...

I agree that things are looking better. I mean, gasoline is half what it was a few months ago and that was paralyzing to many. In my neck of the woods, I'm seeing more people in restaurants too. I think people may have chewed their credit up so they aren't buying big ticket items like they...

Sign of a bottom. I still see people going to work, buying food, etc. Rates are low and there aren't really any outside influences (like dustbowl weather) throwing people out of work. We've talked ourselves into this and we've let our imaginations run wild. There is a point when you're...

Maybe its just me, but after reading three different articles about how Holiday spending is going to be (bad, good, whatever), I'm just thinking it should all fall under the category of "how the hell can they tell"? I understand statistics, and samples, and all that. I'm feeling the pinch...

Not only horrible, but I don't think its possible. The heat would build gradually. May as well put yourself into a pot of tepid water and try to boil yourself. I think you'd eventually reach a point where you'd bail out of your plan...involuntary reaction. Of course, it might depend on the...

Not true at all. Truck drivers lose their lives because people believe this. Do the truck driver's kids a favor and hit a bridge pillar instead.

I would have never guessed it. I think a lot of it was our faith in our fellow man. My thoughts on real estate stemmed from an assumption that people would be prudent and rational. I'm an real estate investment bull, and I made money and continue to make money. But this is because I was...

Huh? Ok, so if you build a big one, and it is going faster than the wind, how can the tail wind get to it? If it goes as fast as the wind, it would be like it was sitting in still air to the person riding aboard it...and at that point...what would be powering it? SM

The 1970s and Vietnam. We'll inflate our way out of it. FWIW, the economy seems so much like the 1970s to me, having been through it. High priced oil, hard to find good rental property, high food prices that climb constantly. Heck, even our fashions are the same. Now all we need is good music.