Housing Bubble

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• Thursday Links

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 751
  By Chris Moody Helping out the “Wall Street fat cats:”   Bankers are responding to the incentives generated by the economic policies of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve. How charter schools can save states big education dollars. Doug Bandow:  “Congress has spent the country blind, inflated a ...
  9 hours ago

• New HUD Same as Old

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 751
  By Tad DeHaven U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan recently gave a speech in New York in which he spoke of a “new direction in housing.” If there’s one constant with cabinet secretaries, it’s that they all promise that their department will be new and improved. The ...
  12 hours ago

• Why You’re Broke

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 559
  By Alan Caruba While it is incontestably true that a lot of people took out mortgage loans they could not afford to replay, it is just as true that they were encouraged to do so because banks were required by federal law to make these bad loans. Bankers even gave them an acronym, “Ninja” loans as in “No ...
  13 hours ago

• “The rich aren’t as rich as they used to be”

  
  New Jersey Real Estate Report — Authority: 127
  From Bloomberg: Luxury Homeowners in U.S. Use ‘Short Sales’ as Defaults Rise Homeowners with mortgages of more than $1 million are defaulting at almost twice the U.S. rate and some are turning to so-called short sales to unload properties as stock-market losses and pay cuts squeeze wealthy borrowers. “The ...
  15 hours ago

• Home for the holidays- just in case…

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 429
  It looks like it’s "Home for the Holidays in Arizona this year: More people across the country are hitting the road for the holidays this year, but that’s not expected to be the case in Arizona. AAA estimates that 3.8 percent more people nationally will travel during the holidays this year compared to last. ...
  19 hours ago

• Bubbles and Bread

  
  Yatter Matters — Authority: 127
  War Paint Bread Lines Photo Credit According to Garry Marr, reporter with the Financial Post , the Chiefs are putting on their ‘bubble’ war paint. Marr points to David Rosenberg as the lead drummer claiming that ‘housing values are 15% to 35% above where they should be based on fundamentals such as ...
  21 hours ago

• Krugman And The Magazine Cover Hypocrisy

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 740
  Paul " We need a housing bubble " Krugman reaches new heights in objective, hypocrisy-free self-assessment. In his latest blog entry, the Nobel prize winner states the following : Bernanke and the Cover Curse So Time magazine has named Ben Bernanke Person of the Year. Be afraid, be very afraid. The ...
  1 day ago

• Senator And Member Of Senate Banking Committee Jeff Merkley Joins Opposition Against Ben Shalom Bernanke

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 740
  MERKLEY STATEMENT ON NOMINATION OF BEN BERNANKE WASHINGTON, DC – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley, a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Development, issued the following statement on his intention to vote against Ben Bernanke’s nomination to a second term as Chairman of the Board of ...
  1 day ago

• Are Buyers Getting Less Excited About Foreclosures?

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 429
  We’ve seen some great sales numbers this past year in some housing markets due to investor interest in purchasing foreclosures.  Phoenix is a great example.  If CNBC is correct, the foreclosure mania might be losing it’s luster:   [ Hat tip L! ] US home buyers are less willing to buy foreclosed properties ...
  1 day ago

• Yet another voice on Bubble

  
  Alberta Bubble — Authority: 106
  It seems all the contrarians who successfully called the US housing bubble and global credit bubble are somehow feeling remiss in their obligations to their readers by holding back in their perspective on the Canadian real estate. The latest one to call the Canadian bubble is yet another contrarian-Karl Denninger. He ...
  1 day ago

• Congress Reining In The Wild West Of Wall Street, Or Giving It Its Head?

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 429
  Last week the House passed HR4173 the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.  Forbes said this about the legislation: The House bill does address the most important problems of regulating systemic risk and too-big-to-fail institutions directly–make no mistake about it. Guaranteeing the liabilities ...
  1 day ago

• AEI Subprime VI Charlie: Complete Annotated Transcript

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 429
  3:18:42 And I think the classic definition of quantitative easing is that the size and composition of a central bank’s balance sheet influences financial markets and the economy over and beyond the level of the policy rate. [slide 4] There’s a couple of things to notice about the definition. First, if you ...
  1 day ago

• Canadian Home Prices Overheated

  
  Toronto Condos — Authority: 410
  Bank of America Merrill Lynch warned that Canada is likely inflating a housing bubble with decades low mortgage rates.Canada calculates inflation by overemphasising new home sales and ignores the hot resale market in its consumer price calculations.New-home prices can vary from resales and new home sales are only 20 ...
  1 day ago

• Homebuilder Blues: NAHB/Wells Fargo Home Builder Ratings December 2009

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 170
  Today, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released their latest Housing Market Index (HMI) showing generally flat results. It’s important to recognize that although each sentiment index has now shown notable year-over-year increases, their levels still remain near the worst levels seen in over 20 ...
  2 days ago

• Homebuilder Blues: NAHB/Wells Fargo Home Builder Ratings December 2009

  
  Paper Economy - A US Real Estate Bubble Blog — Authority: 126
  Today, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released their latest Housing Market Index (HMI) showing generally flat results. Its important to recognize that although each sentiment index has now shown notable year-over-year increases, their levels still remain near the worst levels seen in over 20 ...
  2 days ago

• Homebuilder Blues: NAHB/Wells Fargo Home Builder Ratings December 2009

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 170
  Today, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) released their latest Housing Market Index (HMI) showing generally flat results. It’s important to recognize that although each sentiment index has now shown notable year-over-year increases, their levels still remain near the worst levels seen in over 20 ...
  2 days ago

• WTF with NAR?!

  
  Real Blogging — Authority: 423
  I know that most of you are accustomed to reading my weekly training posts, and I’m very glad to see them so well received.  Thank you for reading and for your many comments!  On Friday, I’ll still post my weekly training article, but today something happened that really ticked me off and I felt the need to ...
  2 days ago

• Sorry to be late with the latest panic report -- The Doom of Debt -- but its never too early or late to start panicking!

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 609
  "The Post could not be bothered to write about the housing bubble as the danger was mounting, only giving attention to the likes of Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, who told us everything was fine, or even better, presenting readers with the assessment of David Lereah, the chief economist of the National Realtors ...
  2 days ago

• The housing market is failing, not recovering

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 429
  At the risk of overdoing the Peter Schiff thing today, I thought he summed up the problems of the housing market so succinctly in today’s Asia times that I had to post it: [W]hile it is true that home prices have stopped falling, this represents failure, not victory. True success would be a drop in home prices ...
  2 days ago

• Peter Schiff Debates Obama’s Economic Policies

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 429
  I know we have a lot of Peter Schiff fans, so I thought I’d post this debate between Peter Schiff and an economist from Columbia University, David Epstein.  Epstein maintains that Obama’s economic policies are saving the economy: [ Hat tip to Organized Exploitation via Freedoms Phoenix ]   I’ve only ...
  2 days ago

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