
Quote from makloda:
Property market in Germany is still very depressed in some regions. There was a big speculation bubble in the mid 90s (building properties in East Germany that turned out to be a bad bet) burned many private investors. Real estate prices appreciated in recent years but nowhere close to the UK, US or Spain. Nowhere close to a bubble. I think most of the financing there is rather conservative, people buy houses with 20-30% down payments.
Even more ironic these German Landesbanks and IBK were fooled into the "risk free investments" in US subprime debt![]()

Quote from JSSPMK:
The world's becoming more and more mad, people with so much money don't know what to do with it. Oprah Winfrey just joined the wolf pack by leaving $30m to her dogs in her will, how absurd and completely ignorant is that towards people that have nothing to eat or nowhere to live to do such a thing? $30m to the dogs, unbelievable, absolutely absurd. Dogs are just that, they are furry animals that eat dog food and shit in the park, they don't need diamonds.