[HiTech RedNeck]

How about the more prosaic “Dubai overspent”?

[muawiyah]

And the mortgage thing ~ just remember, the houses still exist and the empty ones have been filling up again.

Money is symbolic. A roof over your head is real.

Still, with a continual flow of cool dry air up from Antarctica, droughts in the Southern Hemisphere will continue, and grain prices should go through the roof more than once over the next few decades.

Uhh, the warm, moist air is blowing over Antarctica bringing much needed moisture to increase the size of the icecap which then flows out over the ocean.

This is one of those "oscillation" things!

[muawiyah]

And the mortgage thing ~ just remember, the houses still exist and the empty ones have been filling up again.

Money is symbolic. A roof over your head is real.

Still, with a continual flow of cool dry air up from Antarctica, droughts in the Southern Hemisphere will continue, and grain prices should go through the roof more than once over the next few decades.

Uhh, the warm, moist air is blowing over Antarctica bringing much needed moisture to increase the size of the icecap which then flows out over the ocean.

This is one of those "oscillation" things!