[PghBaldy]

down by 12.7 percent from the same period a year ago that's a big drop. Still overpriced in most places, IMO. Another gift from the recent Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. I think this (aliong with high prices for just about everything) had something to do with the overall blah feeling many voters had. Everyone is charging me more in the last year or so. Fees, surcharges. My rent wen up for the first time in a long time (along with new fees that in 20 years I have never had to pay in any rental), thanks to the housing slump.

[GodGunsGuts]

I've noticed the same thin. Now that the election is over, perhaps we can all start looking at this issue a little more objectively.

[PghBaldy]

If the idiotic Fed had paid attention to what the price of gold was saying (nearly tripled in 5-6 years), the bubble wouldn't have gotten so big, and other costs wouldn't be rising so much.