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Like selling apples in the Great Depression

Source: The Mess That Greenspan Made

Nov 08, 2009

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Anyone who has lived in the southwestern part of the U.S. for any length of time over the past few decades will surely appreciate how grave the situation has become for some Americans when considering that the ranks of day laborers standing on street corners in the morning are no longer restricted to recent immigrants and illegal aliens.

It should be clear to even the most casual observer that the biggest busts have occurred in parts of the country where the biggest booms once flourished - that would be California, Nevada, and Arizona - where tales of woe are now spreading as fast as home prices rose back in the first half of the decade.

The poll to the right from a recent story in the Las Vegas Sun (hat tip EU) reflects the current state of affairs for 551 people in and around Sin City where many are now hoping that the wave of foreclosure sales - homes that once sold for $300,000 now flying off the shelf at around $100,000 - will somehow revive the city's economy to its mid-decade glory.

At this point, they'd probably be happy with simply getting back to a sl ...Read the full article

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