They were simply following benny's message.and the message was (I've mentioned it here couple times while ago) -buy a f* house
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America.