The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.
The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.
Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
We have recently moved into an era when... everybody can share an inconceivably enormous amount of information just by stroking a few keys on a terminal.
Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.