1.0 link 108970 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-fraad-wolff/our-love-hate-relation-to_b_108970.html Listening to debates about housing, oil and commodity prices is surreal. Housing and medical costs are huge components of household spending. In the first 3 months of 2008 housing and medical costs represented 33% of personal consumption expenditures, or $3.3 trillion. Across the same three months sky high energy and food costs accounted for 18% of personal consumption expenditure, or $1.8trillion. Housing and medical costs suffered massive and sustained inflation for years. Housing prices- the single largest cost facing...

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