FLU, no apology needed, just that it wasn’t directed at me is enough. Like the other fiscal conservatives have expressed, I hate bubbles, they are counterproductive to good planning. In a perfect world housing would have gone up 5% a year, stocks and commodities too. It’s the drastic swings up and down that screw things up, because despite what anyone says, equilibrium cannot be denied. Speaking of history, no matter how many books we read, everyone has to experience a bubble in order to spot one. I also experienced a meticulous clock cleansing in the dot com bubble and it was that lesson that served me well in the R/E bubble, hopefully today’s bubble victim will see the next one coming and act accordingly.