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Maybe no housing rebound for a generation: Shiller
April 24, 2012|Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Housing market is likely to remain weak and may take a generation or more to rebound, Yale economics professor Robert Shiller told Reuters Insider on Tuesday.

Shiller, the co-creator of the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index, said a weak labor market, high gas prices and a general sense of unease among consumers was outweighing low mortgage rates and would likely keep a lid on prices for the foreseeable future.............................>>>>................>>>>.................http://articles.chicagotribune.....rices-robert-shiller

because everyone has learned that at ANYTIME it can all go to sh!t in a hand basket in a hot second and there ain't no bailout....just personal sweat,work, effort...
and ratings mean sh!t because any change in any number in the algorithms makes a persons 'assets' null and void or if not then just different and less....

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Definition of VALUE

1
: a fair return or equivalent in goods, services, or money for something exchanged
2
: the monetary worth of something : market price
3
: relative worth, utility, or importance
4
: a numerical quantity that is assigned or is determined by calculation or measurement
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: the relative duration of a musical note
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a : relative lightness or darkness of a color : luminosity
b : the relation of one part in a picture to another with respect to lightness and darkness
7
: something (as a principle or quality) intrinsically valuable or desirable
8
: denomination 2
— val·ue·less adjective
— val·ue·less·ness noun
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Examples of VALUE

The company's stock continues to decline in value.
Real estate prices have doubled in value over the last decade.
The difference in value between the two currencies is not significant.
You may exchange the item for something of equal value.
We sold the home for less than its full value.
an increase in the value of the dollar
The home has a value of $1,000,000.
Property values tend to rise as interest rates fall.
The store advertises great values.
No one can deny the value of a good education.
Origin of VALUE

Middle English, worth, high quality, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *valuta, from feminine of *valutus, past participle of Latin valēre to be of worth, be strong — more at wield
First Known Use: 14th century
Related to VALUE

Synonyms: valuation, worth
Antonyms: deficiency, demerit, disvalue
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