Home Prices Go Up Up Up: America Saved!
After dropping like a stone for the past three or four years, existing home prices in the United States went up a little teeny tiny bit in the second quarter of 2009. HOORAY WE CAN REFINANCE OUR WAY TO HAPPINESS AGAIN! So, the sales price of American houses went up by 2.9% between April Fools Day and the end of June, but they alsodroppedby 15% as compared to a year earlier. Never mind, we're still doomed. [ Washington Post ]