[stylin19a]

Cook earned up to $135,000 a year during the housing market's boom as a broker and vice president at Halstead Property, a real estate firm in New York. When her commissions fell by around 50 percent, she decided it was time to quit.

$67,500 a year in New York ? can't live on that. Might as well wear a sign
"Will work for broadband access"

The Mortgage Bankers Association, an industry trade group, expects total loan originations to fall by 18 percent in 2006 to $2.4 trillion versus 2005.

a lousy 2.4 trillion. Good Grief...we're bankrupt !

[RockinRight]

Actually, I think you're being sarcastic, but from what I see you can't live on 67k in NYC. Not in Manhattan, anyway. Maybe in the ghetto.