tight for a year or two because prices need to rise another five or 10 percent before enough sellers can cover mortgage and transaction costs, said Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Analytics Inc. in West Chester, Pennsylvania. "Nobody wants to sell at the bottom and everybody wants to buy at the bot

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recovery. Infrastructure spending pumps money into local economies by creating work for private-sector companies an= good-paying construction jobs. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, found in 2011 that new=federal spending for infrastructure improvements to highways and public schools wou=d

omy around Washington, D.C. is expected to lose some $200 million in economic activity for each day that the governmen= is shut down. -- Economist Mark Zandi has estimated that a short government shutdown, which would send more than 800,000 federal workers home, could shave about 0.3 percentage points =ff