They Dow is down ~250, Nasdaq down almost ~100 as I type this. As the excuses and mea culpas roll out over the next few weeks, pay close...
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We’ve had plenty of well deserved criticism for former NAR Chief Economist David Lereah. So you can imagine how much it tickled our...
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You may have overlooked this short but fascinating column in Bloomberg yesterday: "Merrill Lynch, founded in 1914, sold hundreds of...
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Wow, that’s a pretty ugly chart above. Here are the details, via BLS: "The unemployment rate rose to 5.0 percent in December,...
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Once more unto the breach . . . This morning is the "all-important" December 2007 Non-Farm Payroll reports. Bloomberg’s...
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With the Iowa Caucuses tonight, its as good a time as any to ask, what is wrong with this picture? Via UCSC Health Care Spending and Life...
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This is a classic:> "I don’t know why the banks had to find new ways to lose money when the old ones were working so...
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I keep hearing how there was an unusual amount of volatility in 2007. That assessment is wrong. We have become used to the aberrationally...
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The new Real Money column mentioned yesterday has been moved to the free TheStreet.com site. For some reason, its been retitled: 13...
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Our original thesis back in May 2005 was that Home prices could retrace as much as 25%-35% from the peak to re-establish a normalized...
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