What would you do?

What would you do if you would be a business owner and would hear constantly the economy is bad? Would you hire more employees or lay off people.

What would you do as a potential home buyer or investor? Would you buy or invest if you get told the Real Estate Market is far away from recovery?

What would you do as a consumer if you hear permanently that times are getting worse? Would you go out shopping or save your money?

What would you do if you would be a teenager and everybody tells you that you have no future? Would you waste time into your education?

What would you do if you would if you hear that you will not be able to find any job? Would you go out looking for one?

What would you do if you see trash all around you? Would you clean up or add additional trash to it?

I could continue with this list for pages and pages and hours and hours. Just try to listen to the News, read the paper or talk to other people. See what you are being told every single day. Don’t you hear over and over how bad everything is? You hear some good news for example that we have less foreclosures this month than we had in the month before but even those actually encouraging news are being put into a “negative” content.

Sometimes I ask myself – are those “bad” news steered by some very smart people? If just a few people feed the media with bad news about the housing market and the economy in general is this working in their favor? Are those few people taking advantage of the “low” Real Estate Prices and the falling stocks? Are they buying now in those so called “bad times”? If this is the case the same few people can do the opposite in a few month and feed the media with good news about the booming housing market and the great investments in stocks? Just to sell then with a very high profit?

The Stock Market and the Real Estate Market are very sensitive, just a few bad news will lead the markets to go in one or the other direction. Just a few people could really influence the development of an either booming or a declining market. The only thing they need to do is to feed information to the media in one or the other direction. The Markets will react how ever those people/media are steering it.    

I know this is a bold theory but think about it – can’t there be some truth to it?