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Isn’t it amazing that we live in a country where nearly $10 trillion was given to the banks, where a similar amount was stolen from homeowners and where the same was done to world investors, and when some homeowners arrive at the most important financial location on the planet, the media is absent?

What will it take to get anyone’s attention? It was mentioned several times on the Bill Maher REALTIME show last Friday but mainstream reporters are ignoring or avoiding it — which is it?

It’s hard to argue with people who say we have lost our way and that the American ideal is dead. The future of all generations of Americans and perhaps around the world too is at stake here. Unless the Bank’s backs are broken and we return to the usual kind of filthy politics, we don’t stand a chance. Housing is down again and still going lower. Maybe when it gets to zero we will have some understanding of how deep this wound is in our national psyche and how deep the damage is to our economy and future society.

REUTERS

New home sales in August fall to 6-month low

Mon Sep 26 14:43:32 UTC 2011
By Jason Lange

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New single-family home sales in the United States fell in August to a 6-month low in a sign the crippled housing market will not provide much support for the flagging economy anytime soon.

The Commerce Department said on Monday sales slipped 2.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted 295,000-unit annual rate.

The reading was in line with analysts’ forecasts and does little to allay fears the United States could slip back into recession.

The median price of sales slipped 8.7 percent from July, with weak incomes and a moribund job market keeping households wary of investing in a new home.

The report keeps pressure on the Federal Reserve and President Barack Obama to do more to help the sputtering economy. The Fed last week unveiled new measures to try to ease credit further for homebuyers.

“Sales of new homes are still very depressed,” said Gary Thayer, a strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors in St. Louis, Missouri.

“There’s no sign yet that low mortgage rates are helping the housing sector,” he said.

The U.S. economy slowed sharply in the first half of the year and looks vulnerable to any escalation in the European debt crisis.

U.S. stocks pared gains after the data, with global equities up on hopes that Europe was tackling Greece’s debt woes.

Still, the government raised its estimate for July’s sales pace to 302,000 units from the previously reported 298,000 units. Also, the supply of homes available on the market dropped to a record low.

Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a 295,000-unit rate of new sales for single-family homes in August. In the year through August, sales rose 6.1 percent.

Data last week showed new construction of U.S. homes fell in August, dragging on economic growth.

“The housing sector can’t get any worse,” said Michael Englund, an economist at Action Economics in Boulder, Colorado.

(Additional reporting by Ellen Freilich in New York; Editing by Neil Stempleman)