Hi everyone,

What do you all think about this crazy market and now the flu. Things can't get any better.

Now people in Central Texas are talking about moving back north since Mexico is next door to Texas and now there is one death in Texas.

People are looking to get out and don't know what to do. Prices are dropping in the real estate realm.

A commercial property that is appraise at 900k. I have it under contract for 200k. Can't get better then that.

Please give your inputs in how is it going in your local city or state.

Tags: Business | Financial | Real Estate | local | Economy

Looks like we've been featured in a front page story on the Bloomberg website.  Apparently, the nation is pretty interested in our little community down here.

For those of you who don't know, Austin had a new retail development go up called The Domian.  It currently has a Neiman Marcus, Nordstroms, an Apple Store, a Starbucks and few other major retail names.  It's like a little outside mall and, so far, it looks likes it is a powerful draw for consumers.

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There's not a whole lot of magic about supply and demand.  If demand is high, a low supply will result in a high costs whereas a high supply will result in low costs.  Because of the abundance of products in the marketplace, our economy is demand driven.  Meaning, if demand is low, it really doesn't matter what supply is because the price will be low.

Tags: Economy | Business

This article over at the MSNBC website caught my attention.  In it, the article touches on a few individuals who have money invested in the stock market and are currently asking themselves whether it would be good to get out now, or ride it out.

I suppose what really grabbed my attention was the headline of the article; "Wait-and-hope strategy for some investors."  The reason this caught my eye was that investors don't "wait-and-hope," speculators do.

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