Tough sell... House prices are still artificially inflated..and not on track with what the average American makes. For millions of first time buyer, todays prices are still out of reach.

i will vote you as US pres

great video

So are you saying that lending standards haven't improved for these new home buyers? It's not as if everyone can just go out and get gov't money to purchase a first-time home. It's not about getting Americans to "buy more stuff" and creating another bubble - it's about getting those who can afford a new home to get the market moving.

It is true that in the market place if you do not let the sick companies fail you will extend your slow growth and hurt the economy in the long run. The reason why the government is stepping in now is we have too many market sectors that are set to be decimated if they do not step in. They are just extending the inevitable, but it is import to not let banking, homes, and cars all fail at once.

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It was communism when we gave bailout to the the "too big to fail" wall street and banking institutions.

lmao, vulgarity in intellectual discussions always amuse me! :D

hey peter,sorry to see that head and shoulders pattern fail.but i tell ya what, these DOUBLE TOP formations all over the market won't.can we say Bye Bye markets? yep

Yea so what? You will be making 30 cents an hour the way your economy is heading. So shut it and dont laugh at others. They are earning 30 cents an hour because they realize its the only way to be competitive.

Silver is used to make small-denomination coins for everyday commerce. Gold is how governments and large institutions store large amounts of wealth. Silver has more industrial uses than gold. And gold has a much larger commodity trading market. The point of all this was to explain why gold outperforms silver in times of economic contraction and reduced commerce volume. And thus, why the extreme gold-silver ratio is not likely to return a historical mean. Gold will continue to outperform silver

Silver was used to make coins too. More so than gold.

It may be that 16 to 1-silver to gold is a ratio that will forever go down in the history books ! Fact: Silver is a PM. Fact : Silver has been used in industry since 1940- Gold has not. Fact : Silver is also very valuable to industry with new needed uses being discovered. Fact: There is roughly 2 billion ozs. of above grnd.gold being held today- there is only about 600 million ozs. of silver above grnd.Once the world wakes up to the FACTS that silver has a lot more to it than is understood-$ up$

Silver is an industrial metal. Gold is a monetary metal. Silver outperforms during economic expansion. Gold outperforms in contraction. We are in a contraction because of too much spending and not enough production. Obama has expanded deficit spending and proposes to burden production with socialized medicine, carbon taxes and restrictions, and raising taxes (letting tax cuts expire). Plus Baby Boomers are retiring. The economy will continue to lag and Ag:Au will likely become more extreme.

Free trade does make countries better off, but it does not impact people in those countries evenly. This has become increasingly true now that we can produce more goods than we can consume. Free trade forces low skill labor to compete with one another and puts more power in the hands of those with capital as the develop world moves towards Oligopolies.It allows corporations to circumvent minimum wage laws and benefits, pollution standards, and a f*cked up tort system in the US.

Or less than 1/2% of the food consumed in the US.

Some people say that silver is the way to go, because they think that it's going to return to it's 16:1 state, compared to it's current 62:1. Is this probable?

As long as we ship work out of the US, We won't recover. This free trade , open market thing is a bullcrap. We need to protect jobs here . That World trade organization is full of bullshit , it only benefits the Rich.

name calling? yes i use google like everyone else in the world. i have not written a university white paper about who our top three importers of food and what type of food they import. i know that our produce comes from Latin america (no i did not have to google that one), regardless if it just frozen food, shrimp, tuna, crawfish, etc., it is still our third largest importer of food and over 2 million metric tons is nothing to sniff at, even if you get butt hurt admitting that I was right.

Nice 30 second google, liver lips.Go back and read my response. We import SEAFOOD and PROCESSED FOODS from China. The majority of our food imports from China are seafood, which really comes from the Pacific ocean caught by their 30 cents per hour slave labor.Your fruit, vegatables, meat and dairy don't come China. But watch out for that baby formula or apple juice from concentrate. Apparently, you've been drinking too much of the former.