As we noted over the weekend (Where Foreclosures > # of Homes Sold), Floyd Norris Off the Charts column covered the fascinating question of where in the country Foreclosures are actually exceeding Home Sales
Here is the accompanying video :
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Source:
A Dysfunctional Credit Market
Floyd Norris
NYT, March 3, 2008, 2:29 pm
http://norris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/a-dysfunctional-credit-market/
Next-up! CDS’s…45 trillion worth… Did I mention what Ludwig von Mises said: “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.”