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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (88990)	4/11/2012 9:40:56 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218579

Try looking at it as cold reality and not as what we want it to be. The power we have is limited to only to make a better navigation among realities. This power is limited by the ideas that have planted early in life. See MQ views of VVV and the power of technology. People matters. Materials don't. Drinking tea at 3 PM is where serious questions are resolved. AG had a currency protected by the Forrestal aircraft carrier... That is why people make mistakes. The Anglo Angle I keep talking about. How many Japanese, Germans, French and Scandinavians hold the same false beliefs clouding their views of the world? Society changed shaped by the Japanese, Europeans and Americans. Then stopped changing until these changes reaches the slow movers (Moslems, Chinese) and late starters (Latinos, Malays and Negroes). Once all societies are more or less the same level, it is ready to move again. Why the need to wait for slow movers and late starters to catch up? You need 200 million Hindis and 200 million Chinese reach the western level. They start looking at the society conceived by Japanese, Europeans and Americans and they force it to change.

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (88990)	4/11/2012 12:52:15 PM
From: Hawkmoon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218579

I think the major problem we're going to face is increasing prices for commodities is outpacing the ability of the majority of people to afford them. I believe the same will be discovered with the housing crisis. Houses may sell, but I'm not sure they will sell for much higher prices than we see now. People are just tapped out in the US and unemployment and service sector wages are not going to finance higher valuations very easily. We've been involved in a few remodelings and are investigating some more opportunities. But unless material prices decline, the risk is not being able to sell for more than maybe 10% profit. Still better than the less than 1% that could be made in a CD, but with a lot more risk.. Of course, any home we remodel, we analyzed the return if we decide to rent it instead. Hawk