From ChrisMartenson.com:

A substantial percentage of many households' net worth is comprised of the equity in their home. With the beating home prices have taken since 2007, existing and soon-to-be homeowners are keen to know: Are prices stabilizing? Will they begin to recover from here? Or is the "knife" still falling?

To understand where housing prices are headed, we need to understand what drives them in the first place: policy, perception, and price discovery.

In my December 2011 look at housing, I examined systemic factors such as employment and demographics that represent ongoing structural impediments to the much-awaited recovery in housing valuations and sales. This time around, we're going to consider policy factors that influence the housing market.

Yesterday while standing in line at our credit union I overheard another customer at a teller's window request that her $100,000 Certificate of Deposit (CD) be withdrawn and placed in her checking account because, she said, "I'm not earning anything." The woman was middle-aged and dressed for work in a professional white-collar environment -- a typical member, perhaps, of the vanishing middle class.

Sadly, she is doing exactly what...

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