Dr C Robert Jones Situation Report: Bowe Berghdahl, Obama's Kind Of Fighting Man

America clocked up a record last week. The latest drop in house prices meant that the cost of real estate has fallen by 33% since the peak – even bigger than the 31% slide seen when John Steinbeck was writing The Grapes of Wrath. The last president to be re-elected with unemployment above 7.2% was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.