Blaming anyone’s more bullish attitudes on buying a house doesn’t work all the time and may or may not apply to WFB.How do you know? Why can’t they have an opinion on doom and gloom the same as you can? Many of us have owned houses continuously since joining this forum years ago. I owned a house continuously and predicted a 45-50% loss in mostly nominal terms and I predicted that much of it would happen fast. If it doesn’t get quite to 50% should we blame it on the fact that I own a house? Now I think the previous lows generally speaking are the bottom. O.K. it’s because I own a house, soon to be two. Try to argue better like you expect other people to.