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• Fannie Mae and Wells Fargo Announce Creative Mortgage Solutions: A New Thing Called Renting. Option ARM Scenarios, Lease for Deed, and Delaying the Financial Future.

  
  Dr. Housing Bubble Blog — Authority: 520
  Last week, foreclosure Hall of Fame member and government stepchild Fannie Mae announced a stunning $18.9 billion loss.  Remember last year when we were told that bailing out the enormous Government Sponsored Entities that we would be turning a profit?  Well that didn’t exactly pan out and both Fannie Mae and ...
  1 day ago

• Mortgage Crisis: Shark With an Appetite

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 552
  I was in New York earlier in the week for the Value Investing Congress. Among the more valuable presentations were those of Sean Dobson at Amherst Securities and Whitney Tilson and Glenn Tongue of T2 Partners. They were valuable because they helped frame where we are in the mortgage crisis, which has been the main ...
  3 days ago

• The Hypocrisy Of Chairman Ben

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Even as Fed representatives seem not only unaware of the anti-dollar bubble being created, but unaware of the bubble concept in general, courtesy of a perfectly efficient economic system in which all such things tend to self-adjust with "mild to moderate" adverse impacts, one would be remiss to blame Fed Chairman of ...
  5 days ago

• 5 Reasons Why The Recent Market Slump Is Not What Mainstream Expects

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 132
  ``The next bubble in asset markets will not be in the West but in emerging Asia, led by China. The irony is that the more anaemic the Western recovery proves to be, the longer it will take for Western interest rates to normalize and the bigger the resulting asset bubble in Asia. Emerging Asia, not the U.S. consumer, ...
  1 week ago

• Option ARMs Enter the Eye of the Hurricane: The $189 Billion Recast Problem Targeted Directly at the California Housing Market. Of $189 Billion in Securitized Option ARMs $109 Billion in California.

  
  Dr. Housing Bubble Blog — Authority: 520
  It is rather clear that the housing market is muddling through.  However, nationwide there has been a spurt in activity directly related to the Federal Reserve holding mortgage rates artificially low and the very expensive tax credit.  This is a nationwide issue.  But what isn’t a nationwide issue is the ...
  1 week ago

• Moodys To Hike RMBS Loss Severity Assumptions, Extends Expected Trough For Housing Prices

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  A release out of Moodys today does not seem to jive too well with the prevalent assumption that 90%+ of a 3.5% bounce in GDP being driven by non-recurring events is the greatest way to ramp the market after several down days. The rating agency, always asleep at the wheel, has waited until the proverbial "end of the ...
  1 week ago

• Sony ALT-A33PC Wireless Music Transmitter $159.99 Shipped

  
  GamerHotline — Authority: 585
  Sony ALT-A33PC Wireless Music Transmitter $159.99 Shipped With Coupon Code: ALTPC20 Exp. 10/25 Powered by S-AIR™ digital wireless technology, the ALT-A33PC wireless music transmitter and receiver for PC lets you transmit music on your PC to your existing audio or home stereo setup. You can also pair ...
  2 weeks ago

• California Sending out Approximately 475,000 Notice of Defaults for 2009 yet Overall Foreclosures Declining. Shadow Inventory, Q3 Defaults, Toxic Loans. The State of the National Housing Market.

  
  Dr. Housing Bubble Blog — Authority: 520
  California is on path for a record 2009.  By the end of the year over 475,000 notice of defaults will be sent to California homeowners.  This of course is simply from lenders that actually even bother to send a notice of default.  The shadow inventory is growing and we have some concrete data showing the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Investors Think Things Will Return to the Way They Were in the Bubble Epoque

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 552
  What a great recovery! No jobs... No credit... No sales... But look at those stocks! And oil! And gold! And even London property! Real estate agents in London say they are sold out...as prices go to records. Well, asking prices...that is. As for sales prices, that is another story. Still, London is driven by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Real Homes of Genius: An Economic Investigation of La Mirada. Median Sale Price, Incomes, Trends, Shadow Inventory, and the case for no Price Bounce. Mortgage Equity Withdrawal Home Value from $157,000 to $570,000.

  
  Dr. Housing Bubble Blog — Authority: 520
  In a brilliant move, the California home builder lobby has won a $10,000 tax credit costing the state $30 million.  But there is a major caveat here.  This only applies to new home sales.  Of course the industry salivates and is falling over one another in excitement but overall, this should boost sales by another ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Comprehensive Look at the Southern California Housing Market: 60,000 Properties Listed on the MLS but over 100,000 in Shadow Inventory. California and Nationwide Median Home Price Trends since 1968. Say Good-Bye to Option ARMs.

  
  Dr. Housing Bubble Blog — Authority: 520
  You know things are going well for the economy when Bernard Madoff is fighting in prison over the stock market.  Maybe the argument revolved around dollar cost averaging into this easy money rally.  Here in California, specifically in Southern California there seems to be a lot of energy getting behind the housing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Book Review: " A Walk for Sunshine" -- Appalachian Trail Saga

  
  The Portal to Boomeranger World — Authority: 116
  by Nancy Mehegan ***VIVID ACCOUNT * HUMOROUS * INSTRUCTIVE*** "A Walk for Sunshine" by Jeff Alt  " A Walk for Sunshine " is an account of a 147 day odyssey on the Appalachian Trail. is an inspirational telling of an everyday person who seeks to accomplish an extraordinary task in honor of a beloved brother ...
  4 weeks ago

• Real Homes of Genius: 3 Westside Shadow Inventory Homes. Santa Monica, Culver City, and Rancho Park. Banks will not Hold Inventory Forever.

  
  Dr. Housing Bubble Blog — Authority: 520
  The shadow inventory is probably one of the most pressing issues determining the future of real estate prices.  In recent weeks, mostly those with close ties to the real estate industry, have started having faith in the banking industry that somehow incompetent banks that wouldn’t know a loan modification if it ...
  5 weeks ago

• Breakthrough Nano Tech Will Boost Solar Power Efficiency

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 140
  Photo: Oregon State University Inexpensive Nanostructure Film Keeps Photons from Bouncing Off That’s the beauty of science. You discover something new, and then you keep finding new applications for it. Chemical engineers at Oregon State University (OSU) have invented a new way to deposit … Read the full story on ...
  7 weeks ago

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