In reading the U.S. Population clock(under www.census.gov/population) the number today stands at 311,066,702.
If you read the blog from December 22, 2010, the last census reported 308,745,238 residents. That’s where the official number stands for the last census of 2010. The census report for 2000 was that the United States population was 281,421,906.
If you read my blog of 7.19.2010, the population clock was 309,774,892.
If you read my blog of 2.15.09, the population clock was 305,849,952.

So I think that it’s safe to say that we have somewhere around 310 million people living in the United States today. That would be roughly another 30 million people since the census a decade ago.

Minnesota is around five and half million people. The growth in U.S. population in the last 10 years is like adding almost 6 Minnesota’s to the base.

If you think housing is tanked, you may want to rethink this market. This is an opportunity market, not a “cry in your beer” market. In the way that we transmit data, which is almost instantaneously, and the sheer amount of people in the world around us; I predict that market cycles will have greater highs and greater lows. Also, that the peaks and valleys will be closer together.

It is hard to not have “herd” mentality when investing. The negative connotations are consistently in your head (and your best friends head…of which they will constantly remind you of) dissuading you to a safer, alternate course. Again, I must say that this is an OPPORTUNITY MARKET unlike any I have seen in a very long time. Tomorrow’s marketplace is going to be much different than today. You look into the future and tell me what you see. I know that some of you out there have great vision. Did I ever tell you the story once asked of Hellen Keller?
Helen Keller, we all know was the blind lady who made wonderful contributions to our society. She was once asked if there was anything worse than losing one’s eyesight? She said, ” Oh yes, having eyesight and no vision is much worse.”

Take time to look out into the future. You can see it, but you have to look first.