Data released this week show a complex housing market with bidding wars in some Silicon Valley neighborhoods, and slow sales in much of the rest of the Bay Area. Nationally, foreclosures are down, mortgage rates remain at historic lows and President Obama just announced a plan to help struggling homeowners refinance. We take the temperature of the housing market, and look into the president's housing proposal.

Bringing manufacturing jobs back to America has been a popular talking point on the campaign trail. But experts say that despite indicators of a future uptick, manufacturing levels will never return to their glory days for a variety of reasons, the least of which is a lack of skilled labor.