have security, you re not buying a home. hand in hand. on the secondhand what the data shows we re not recovering in way we typically have been doing after the great depression he we can t follow a play book we ve seen in any sort of recovery. we re in sort of a no-man s land and no-man s world where we re in a situation you can t spend data, you can t look at a play book for, this is a different type of animal we re dealing with altogether. mike: it s an interesting fact there is one market in all of america where housing prices have not declined, but actually improved, washington d.c. imagine that. mike: i find it interesting, because it s the only market that posted a positive gain and it s experiencing its 23rd consecutive month leading in the housing market. and it had positive annual growth for 17 consecutive months. shibani, is it possible that the reason so many people in washing, both democrats and republicans, don t understand the severity of this