Lower prices would make credit more available as prices would no longer be insane multiples of annual incomes and that greater credit and lower demand would mean housebuilders being able to sell more thus saving them from bankruptcy.
And for San Francisco-based mobile security firm Lookout, it may also be the year when the idea of going up against PC-focused security giants like McAfee and Symantec no longer seemed quite so insane.
First, at a time of shrinking resources available for national defense, it is insane for the West to be dismantling its existing mechanisms, namely COCOM's "no-exceptions" policy, for controlling the flow of technologies to the USSR.