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Have a great day and don’t forget its National Service Day.  This is a great opportunity to give in our communities.  The current conditions have created a need for more families than at any point in most of our lifetimes.  Let’s join President Obama and First Lady Michelle in this historic moment.  God Bless!

 2009 King Day of Service Will Be Largest Ever – 12,100 Projects and Counting!

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Note to president Obama… Our current financial system doesn’t work!  As if he really needed me to tell him that!  The current mortgage meltdown and credit crisis should tell us all one thing for sure.  We don’t know what the “h-e-double hockey sticks” we are doing in our financial markets.  Many years ago there were no banks or brokers to create this mess.  Banks served a great purpose in building our country to what it is/was.  But maybe its time that we do something different or in this case do it again but better.   What I am referring to is people investing in other people not banks.  Today this concept is commonly referred to as Peer to Peer lending. 

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According to three researches at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the 2005 bankruptcy law is another contributor to our economy in crisis.  The article states that prior to the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, homeowners were able to file Chapter 7 liquidation.  This allowed them to continue to pay their mortgages while freeing themselves of unsecured (not asset backed) debt.  You can red the rest of the article here.

 By now we all should know how our country got into this economic depression.  Anyone who doesn’t know isn’t paying attention.  Yes I did call it a depression just like I called it a recession before it was official.  It’s not just me either.  However, if you don’t know how it happened, here is my condensed list:

• Lenders
• Mortgage Brokers
• Regulators
• Mortgage Secondary Market
• Investment bankers
• Bernie Maydoff (yes he gets his own category)
• The Feds
• White House
• Congress
• Past Presidents
• New Home Builders
• Real Estate Investors
• Hedge Fund Managers
• Media Outlets

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Sales of pending US homes dropped to a new low in November.  According to the National Association Of Realtors (NAR), signed contracts in November dropped 4.0 percent to 82.3.  This is the lowest level since 2001. Economists expected a 0.1 percent drop, so that should tell you just how far off the mark they are.

Yeah! comments are back!  Akismet is a life saver for Wordpress blogs, along with many others blog engines I’m sure.  Comment Spam on the blog-sphere is out of control!  I had over 11,000 spam comments in the queue.  How ridiculous is that?   Well thankfully I rediscovered this plug-in so we can get back to some meaningful conversation.  Thanks guys at Akismet!  Now if I can only find the time to post articles again…