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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With the oft hallucinatory David Lereah now gone from the NAR, one would expect hope that the Realtor Group would take off the...
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Last week, we noted that the Housing Freefall Continues Unabated. Conversations with Real Estate Agents prior to the NYT story...
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We mentioned Labor Force Participation Rate over the weekend. It is worth exploring a bit further. One of the lesser noted aspects...
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