www.bespokeinvest.com

This website is the free information service and teaser for Bespoke's more extensive analysis. No subscription to the full site here, but this is still a terrific source of market thoughts and stats.

Take a look at the many city charts of residential real estate prices from two days ago. All up from the 2009 trough until early 2011 and then mostly uniform steps down again.

Think about the analysis today of the impact of Japan's earthquake on global economic growth, and the parallels now with the 1995 Kobe earthquake.

Just a suggestion...