Dominic Nardini III wrote on March 13, 2008 09:09 PM: Please alert the state to the mental anguish and pain those patients of Dr Young are going through at this very moment. He has betrayed his patients and his profession. Please support those who have been victimized by his actions.
Identify that behavior which is criminal and should be held accountable.

CAS127 wrote on March 13, 2008 04:32 PM: Dear Stats Lie,

You make a decent point about getting too worked up about percentage changes - they can mislead.

But if you graph the idiotic soaring of home sales/prices from 2002 thru 2006 and overlay the growth in private sector jobs during the same period (the weakest "jobs recovery" in 50 years) you'll understand that perhaps as many as 2 million economically unjustified homes were built over the last 5 or 6 years.

That is a *lot* of wasted effort, expenditure, and savings that only now is being reflected in the financial marketplaces.

And it is occuring on the cusp of the worst entitlement crisis this nation has ever seen (guess when the first of the baby boomers turn 62 and qualify for early Social Security benefits...let's see...1946 + 62 = 2008).

The welfare state tax skimmers had their war on poverty - poverty won.

Welcome to the first days of Weimar America.

Stats lie wrote on March 13, 2008 11:33 AM: Really? if you come off a period with LOW historic foreclosure #'s even a small increase is a huge percentage. If you figure how low foreclosures were for the last 5 years and avereage it out we still have less foreclosures than if the market was at an average pace of foreclosures over that same period. It's the same B.S. "losses" shown by the lenders. Did they reall lose money when they refied the same house 3 time in a 2 year period with all the fees, and prepay penalties etc. The answer is NO. They show gains in a fiscal year, but really profits or "losses" are measured over the entire time of the investment. I bet, their profits are still ahead of where they were 5 years ago. Genious