It's been volitile. Should I stay or should I go? I expect more bad housing data and everytime some comes out, the market drops 200 points.

It's universally expected that the Fed will lower rates by at least 25 points by their next meeting (Sept 18th, I think). Bond funds (MFS specifically) have taken it on the chin during the recent credit crunch. I bought at 5.86 and it has been as low as 5.62. In the last week it BOUNCED back up to 5.74 and I expect that to continue as rates are lowered.

Summer was coming to a close and I was getting worried that I'd stay a landlord forever. A little luck and a great realtor took over and we closed August 31st. It was the longest 30 day escrow in history. 2 weeks into it, all the bad housing data flooded from Wall Street dropping the DOW from it's high of 14K down to 13K.

A lot of stuff has been going on with real estate. My parents just bought a new house and are about to list their old one. All the talk of huge capital gains has motivated me to find a buyer for my duplex.

I'll keep you posted.

Bubble's pop was akin to a slow leak - Home sales tumbled in 2006, but prices mostly dipped. Even so, don't expect a boom soon.

It's official! The bust is over!

Kenneth R. Harney is a moron.

I'm reading an article in the New Yorker.

Did you know?

• The ocean has absorbed about half of all the carbon dioxide man has spewed into the air since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
• The surface pH of the oceans has lowered by .1 - representing a 30% increase in the acidity of the ocean.
• The CO₂ combines with the ocean's H₂0 producing H₂C0₃ (carbonic acid - a weak acid found in most sodas)

Currently, investors are pulling money from real estate and putting it in the market. While this probably is propping up the market in the near term (6 months or so), it won't sustain it through 2007. It's good to be in equities now, but I'm going to begin looking for safer, dividend paying stock funds (Equity/Income) and medium term bond funds for the future.