A stunning new analysis from Trulia suggests that rising interest rates in 4Q 2016 may actually be having the desired effect of cooling home sales,despite the best efforts of Obama to keep the party rolling at the expense of American taxpayers.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-11/american-home-sale-failures-suddenly-double-q4-2016-signed-sealed-no-deal

Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.