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...free profit at that--real estate investors and others would soon begin snapping up short sales, foreclosures and any other bargains they could find. Unsold housing inventories and mortgage foreclosures would decline, and the housing market would be on its way to recovery. Good old-fashioned capitalism would again save the day. Charles Lingenfelter, CARLSBAD, CALIF...
...liberators; the insurgency is in its last throes. We don't torture. Nobody thought the levees would break; FEMA is doing a heckuva job; we'll do what it takes to rebuild. The economy is fundamentally strong, and more tax cuts will make it stronger. And we can save Social Security by letting you invest your benefits in the market...
...nearly 3 million years of human history, saving and investment was a dumb idea. We hunted, we gathered, we consumed, and we moved on to greener pastures. Only when migrating tribes learned to settle down and farm did they need to save and plan, storing seeds and surpluses to tide them over from season to season. We've had 10,000 years to absorb the truth that cultures that don't value THRIFT ultimately flame out and die. Apparently that isn't long enough to learn the lesson...
There's no way to tell during this current distress whether we're repenting or just retrenching. THRIFT-store sales are up. Cars are shrinking. P. Diddy retired his private jet to save on gas. In hard times, people often rediscover the peace that prudence brings, when you try to spend a little less than you have because tomorrow might be worse. But that feels almost un-American; we're optimists by nature, and we've been living large for so long that solvency feels like a sacrifice. It will take some sustained character education--and leadership--to understand that...
...which, recently, every day in business may be your last, where mismatched games of chicken are played with major international powers. In these unstable times, better that we avoid a tangle with these nothing-to-lose daredevils and give them what they want—if only to save our own souls...