China’s New ‘Great Wall’ Built on Easy Money,...
Source: China’s New ‘Great Wall’ Built on Easy Money, Speculation and Toxic Debt Yahoo Tech Ticker...
Case Shiller Index Falls 17% for May ’09; Monthly...
Home Price Declines are slowly abating. So says the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. Data through May 2009 shows that the annual...
Foreclosure for Hotels
Heartbreak of Foreclosure for Hotels 7/27/2009 Just when you thought the worst was over for real estate, new foreclosures are checking...
Which Are the Credible Industry Trade Groups?
On Sunday, I mentioned the Association of American Railroads “Rail Time Indicators.” It was not showing any green shoots. That...
Bank Failures Reported by FDIC
It appears that Bank Failures are accelerating, at least according to this chart from Ron Griess of The Chart Store: >
Niall Ferguson and James Fallows on ‘Chimerica’
Niall Ferguson, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and The Atlantic’s James Fallows discuss the...
Real Estate Quote of the Day
Awesome: “National New Home Sales, on a monthly basis, don’t even add up to half of the total foreclosure activity in...
10 Members Send Letter to Fed on Goldman Sachs Gambling with...
Here’s the PDF of the letter, with text below. Signers are Alan Grayson, Ron Paul, Walter Jones, Brad Miller, Dan Lipinski, Elijah...
Monday Linkage
Monday linkage — some things from off the beaten path: • Jeremy Grantham calls markets at a Boring Fair Price!, and he is Waiting for...