Housing Bubble

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• FHA: Helping the affluent buy housing

  
  Bubble Meter — Authority: 537
  The Federal Housing Administration exists in part to make housing more affordable for low-income families. However, with the advent of the financial crisis the FHA has experienced mission creep. The first of its new missions is to help prop up housing prices, thus preventing housing from becoming affordable. The ...
  5 hours ago

• Flippers Going Wild- Again

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 555
  Flipping mania swept the nation back during the housing boom causing a new wave to sweep the nation- foreclosures.  After all the financial havoc that was wrought, I thought that flipping would go the way of the Passenger Pigeon. I was wrong: Flippers swoop in at public auctions of foreclosed homes, known as ...
  9 hours ago

• “Cash For Caulkers”

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 555
  Apparently one bad idea deserves another.  Cash for Clunkers is being followed up with Cash for Caulkers : [ Thanks L! ] In an effort to further stimulate job growth,the Obama administration is applying the principles of the Cash for Clunkers program to the housing construction industry: The president ...
  13 hours ago

• Housing: Canada vs. the United States

  
  Bubble Meter — Authority: 537
  Canadian vs. U.S. housing prices: Canadian vs. U.S. delinquency rates: Commentary from the source: While it is difficult to disentangle the reasons why Canada avoided the subprime boom, some factors can be identified that may have contributed to the differences in the Canadian and U.S. subprime ...
  1 day ago

• The Economy Eclipses the Sun - Part 2 of 2

  
  Making Money Online — Authority: 123
  Capitalism Capitalism HAS NOT failed! It has been replaced by some monstrous creature called Fascism. The country has been heading towards Communism for many years now, with all kinds of small bailouts, often for lazy people. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for helping people whenever I can, but the decision ...
  2 days ago

• More bubbles to come

  
  Bubble Meter — Authority: 537
  Robin Wells, a former Princeton University economics professor and current wife of Paul Krugman, says we will continue having financial bubbles : The world is trapped in a global savings glut . It is both the source of our economic woes and an obstacle to the task of pulling ourselves out of the ditch. Worse yet, ...
  2 days ago

• Debt Collectors Going After Homeowner Bank Accounts For Second Mortgages

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 555
  With all the underwater homes out there,  there are a lot of second mortgages that are in effect unsecured loans.  Now it sounds like debt collectors in New York [ a recourse state ] are treating them as such: Josh Zinner of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project in Manhattan said some lenders ...
  2 days ago

• The Next Shoes To Drop In Commerial Real Estate - Part 1

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 750
  Everyone is now well aware of the plight of Stuy Town, which has become a set fixture on the front page of the daily press, and is expected to default on its underlying borrowings within a few months at the most. What will happen to the controlling equity, and the tenants at the multiapartment complex, is unknown. It ...
  2 days ago

• ACORN’s Fingerprints on Mortgage Crisis Appeared 20 Years Ago

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  ACORN has been fairly criticized for its actions that led up to the mortgage crisis, which culminated in a huge rash of foreclosures last year.  While the tide appears to be waning, it’s a problem that is still occuring. Specifically, ACORN strong-armed banks and worked with members of Congress, such as Barney ...
  3 days ago

• “Few bright spots”

  
  New Jersey Real Estate Report — Authority: 127
  From the Star Ledger: Home prices, sales decline There are a few bright spots but by and large Somerset and Hunterdon counties — much like the rest of the state — were not spared from falling home prices and decreasing home sales from 2008 to 2009. Home sale data show that Somerset County saw a drop-off in ...
  3 days ago

• Bargain book about the financial crisis

  
  Bubble Meter — Authority: 537
  Looking for an inexpensive Christmas gift for yourself or others? Just want something to read while traveling? The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown is currently available from Amazon.com for only $4.55 . Those who prefer hardcover can get it for only $6.18 . I havent read the book, so I cant attest to its quality. I ...
  3 days ago

• Las Vegas caller: Do I walk away from this house?

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 555
  An underwater Las Vegas caller calls in and asks if he should walk away from his house:  [Thanks L!] Where do you stand in the debate?
  3 days ago

• The next “bubble” will pop sometime

  
  Lucrative Investing — Authority: 140
  You would think that we would learn something from our bubbles bursting every time we see some kind of “new” money making thing that catches on. However, this isn’t the case. As a matter of fact, as a capitalistic nation, we tend to try to make money the greediest and fastest ways imaginable. In the case of the ...
  3 days ago

• Feeling more paranoid than usual this morning.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  We’re back in the trading range since mid Nov and it’s making me nervous. Friday Dow down on stronger dollar made sense, and the Russell up over 2% on good unemployment data (believe it or not, doesn’t matter) also made sense. The Russell had been lagging, and this gives it the chance to catch up with the big ...
  4 days ago

• Ben Bernanke’s Long History of Bad Economic Calls

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 727
  Before serving as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke was the head of George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, operating in the Christina Romer role. During that period he parroted the rose-colored outlook of the economy that characterized the Bush Administration prior to the Great Recession they ...
  4 days ago

• On statistics…

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 555
  
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• The statistics never fail to amaze me.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Years ago I attended a show. Two guys were talking about their working life. One said: “I am bankrupt!”. “Great!” says the other. “Why is that great?”. “You now have infinite growing potential!”. Is it really all a question of perspective? I do not think so. The spin on the statistics does not give ...
  5 days ago

• Op-Ed Friday: Home Sellers STILL Out To Lunch

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 555
  It’s Friday- are you thinking about running out and buying a house now that they are affordable and you can use a $8,000 tax credit?  Perhaps they are not as affordable as you have been led to believe: Prospective buyers eying real estate deals in foreclosure-ridden Florida, where home prices have plummeted ...
  5 days ago

• Appearance of Irrationality

  
  this is the samaBlog — Authority: 121
  Someone needs to send this to Megan McArdle : Imagine we see an enormous rise in the number of traffic accidents in a major city. Cars keep colliding at intersections as drivers all seem to make the same sorts of mistakes at once. Is the most likely explanation that drivers have irrationally stopped paying ...
  5 days ago

• Thursday Links

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 743
  A few questions for Ben Bernanke : “Perhaps the most important question Bernanke should answer is: how will he re-build and maintain an independent Fed?” Before considering Bernanke’s role in containing the financial crisis, Congress should investigate the role of Fed policy in allowing the housing bubble to ...
  6 days ago

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