April 2009 - Page 10 of 30 - The Big Picture

Another ugly New Home Sales report: There was no statistically significant monthly improvement, as the reported change of 0.6% was...

March New Home Sales, a measure of=20 contract signings of new homes, totaled 356k annualized, almost 20k more tha= n=20 expected and Feb...

Ford is joining Best Buy and Bed Bath & Beyond in taking advantage of their competitor’s woes while at the same time executing...

Over the past few years, I have frequently referred to US housing as over priced and over valued by traditional metrics. These include:...

Let’s revisit the old linkfest days: • U.S. Is Said to Prepare Filing for Chrysler Bankruptcy (New York Times) See also Who...

The Credit Crisis and Cycle Proof Regulation1 1 Remarks delivered by Raghuram G. Rajan, Eric Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of...

Nice cover image from the Economist on the brown shoots. Excerpt: “But, welcome as it is, optimism contains two traps, one obvious,...

Existing-home sales fell 7.1% from March 2008; Since February 2009, they fell 3% (seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.57 million units)....

Elizabeth Warren Part I The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Elizabeth Warren Pt. 1 thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full...

Great interactive chart I meant to get to earlier this week, via the NYT: > > Source: For Housing Crisis, the End Probably Isn’t...