To surge across the country. The Ongoing Movement for Racial Equity and political reform and President Trump began his weekend early yesterday by once again hitting the links. If it sounds like every week you tune in i tell you that trump is playing golf, its because he is. So far as President Trump has spent 256 days at one of his golf courses. Thats 8 1 2 months, more than 20 of his time in office, at a cost to taxpayers estimated to be over 1 138 million. So theres that. After his latest golf outing, trump traveled to mr. Rushmore from what was billed as an official white house event but was a thinly veiled campaign stop. His divisive message was front and center and filled with apocalyptic rhetoric. Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, to defame our heroes, erase our values, and n indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of Violent Crime in our cities.
This discussion is an hour and a half. The Vice President for Economic Policy here, and thank you all for coming. Its an interesting time for the Housing Market. We could have said that anytime in the last five years but things are changing a bit, after more than five years of decline, markets around the country seem to be doing somewhat better. Home prices are going up. And foreclosures are at a fiveyear low. On the other hand, were still suffering from a serious overhang from the crisis. More than four million households have lost their homes through foreclosure. This is, of course, been very bat for families and communities and bad for state and local budgets. On top of that. Home price declines wiped out roughly 7 trillion in household wealth. And left more than 10 million families underwater on their mortgages. In particularly hearterrity communities lice leaves more than half the home owners are underwater and many by half of their homes value. This is creating significant proble
Thank you for coming. It is an interesting time for the Housing Market. I guess we could have said that any time in the last five years are so. Things are changing a bit. After more than five years of declining markets, we seem to be doing somewhat better. Home prices are going up. Foreclosures are at a fiveyear low. On the other hand, we are still suffering from a serious overhang from the crisis. More than 4 million households have lost their homes through foreclosure. This has been bad for families, communities, state and local budgets. Home price declines wiped out roughly 7 trillion in household wealth, left more than 10 million families under water, and away more than their homes are worth. Hardhit communities such as las vegas in san bernadine know, more than half are under water. This is creating some significant problems. The air at a much greater risk of a foreclosure de are at a much greater risk of foreclosure. The borrower has no other commission to fall back on here. We w
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