As if the NAR data wasn’t gamed, massaged and otherwise manipulated by the reportage of local realtors themselves: It turns out to...
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Last night’s discussion of the Bear Stearn’s Hedge Fund melt down was remarkably sanguine. I guess to those who look at the...
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This graphic, via Keven Depew of Minyanville, is simply hysterical . . . Here are those 7 states: > Source:Five Things: Subprime...
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There is an interesting article in July Bloomberg Mag ("Toxic Debt")about who owns the CDOs and CMOs now causing so much...
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"The housing market has continued to deteriorate throughout the second quarter" and "the supply of new and existing homes...
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One of the reasons I push back against certain mainstream coverage of economic events is that through a combination of cheapness and...
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Yesterday, we learned that the NAHB Housing Market Index, a gauge of home-builder confidence, declined to its lowest reading since the...
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> "Who are you gonna believe, me, or your lyin’ eyes?" > As the lyrics above note, the consumer knows what the...
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Barron’s Alan Abelson weighs in on one of of our regularly and favored subjects: There is no inflation, except for all those pesky...
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This morning’s inflation rate was terrific. Or terrible. What you saw depended upon where you looked. Wall Street looked at the...
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