Tight inventories, rising prices hurt U.S. home sales

``The weak sales come on the heels of reports last week showing a drop in housing starts in October and a dip in confidence among home builders. Economists had forecast sales falling to a rate of 5.40 million units last month.'' -- Most of this article is of course absolute and complete B.S. (you know when the fictitious "5% unemployment rate" is quoted that people are in la-la land; everyone knows underemployment, which is more important for housing, is pushing 20%)...