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23 Aug

How We Got To This Point in the Housing Market

by Barry Ritholtz
"Every time we’ve gone into a downturn in the home-building industry, they’ve always been longer and deeper than...

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19 Aug

The Car Dealer Doldrums Indicator

by Barry Ritholtz
What are Car-Sales Saying About a Recession? According to Floyd Norris of the NYT, potentially alot. In his column in today’s...

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18 Aug

House of Cards

by Barry Ritholtz
Amusing!

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17 Aug

House of Pain

by Barry Ritholtz
The WSJ’s MarketBeat has an excellent summary on the Housing Starts data, titled House of Pain. The WSJ notes 4 relevant factors...

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3 Aug

Tension Between Incoming Data and Forecast

by Barry Ritholtz
“The lags between policy actions and their effects imply that we must be forward-looking, basing our policy choices on the longer-term...

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2 Aug

Mortgage Apps drop 29% Y-Y

by Barry Ritholtz
We were recently asked why we have become so "Real Estate obsessed." That’s the wrong question. Given how significant...

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28 Jul

There They Go Again: NRF Redux

by Barry Ritholtz
I nearly spit out my iced coffee when I saw this cross the tape: "With record temperatures across the nation making headlines, many...

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24 Jul

New, More Stringent Rules on Option ARMs and Interest-only Loans

by Barry Ritholtz
On Saturday, we mentioned Alan Abelson quoting of Don Tomnitz, CEO of the No. 1 home builder, D.R. Horton. If you stopped reading after...

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12 Jun

Real Estate Dependency of Households

by Barry Ritholtz
Earlier today, we looked at several Real Estate related charts. One particular chart we looked at from Northern Trust showed the...

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12 Jun

Housing Leads the Economy Up AND Down

by Barry Ritholtz
Two weeks ago, we looked at a few Housing related charts, and discussed what they meant for the overall real estate market. This morning,...

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      Barry L. Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Launched in...

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