The relentlessly ignorant Michelle Malkin is pleased to quote this idiot Weintraub:
"For every house sold because the buyer couldn't make the payments," Weintraub notes, "there is a buyer on the other end of that transaction who got a good deal. And for every foreclosure, there are probably 10 buyers of nearby homes who benefited from the general easing of house-price pressure." Bingo.
The problem is, Michelle, that there aren't enough homes being sold. From Bloomberg, 12/6/07:
Sales of new and previously owned homes probably will drop to 5.09 million next year, 32 percent below the 2005 peak of 7.46 million, according to Frank Nothaft, chief economist of Freddie Mac, the second largest U.S. mortgage buyer.
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