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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Think4Yourself who wrote (119983)	5/1/2008 3:14:17 PM
From: Perspective	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

When did the 1920s RE market peak out? I know history doesn't repeat, but it would be fitting if it rhymed. I think the Japan RE market actually peaked in 1992, a couple years after the stock market peak in 1990. `BC

To: Think4Yourself who wrote (119983)	5/1/2008 3:34:57 PM
From: Smiling Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

The fed is, for all intents and purposes, lending money for free at the moment. -- The Fed has expanded their presence and distanced themselves from the manipulation by opening their press to WS. That's why the mkt has literally not had a real down day since they installed that new drive thru window. If you got to trade with an endless supply of capital courtesy of the Fed, then fundamentals no longer matter. What's worse, the Fed is probably pushing these "loans" with the understanding it be used to shore up the mkt. They have said in many ways they will do anything they can to restore confidence in the capital markets.