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11 Aug

Economists Are Starting to Get a Clue

by Barry Ritholtz
Look who’s caught up to reality: The economists who participate in the WSJ’s Monthly Economic Forecasting Survey: "This...

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9 Aug

the Pregnant Pause

by Barry Ritholtz
NOTE:  This Trading alert was originally posted at Ritholtz Research & Analytics on Thu 8/9/2006 10:16 PM EDT; An email went out...

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8 Aug

Are Economists Too Optimistic on Housing’s Soft...

by Barry Ritholtz
A large part of our Slow-Motion Slow-Down thesis has been based on Real Estate — the prime engine of economic growth the past few...

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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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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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22 Jul

Housing downturns: “longer and deeper than...

by Barry Ritholtz
Barron’s Alan Abelson discusses one of our favorite subjects:  the Housing slowdown. In particular, note the commentary from...

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17 Jul

Interest Only Mortgages

by Barry Ritholtz
Our discussion of Interest Only Mortgages this morning was incomplete without an accompanying  graph. Here is the accompanying map...

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17 Jul

The Impact of Variable Rate Mortgages

by Barry Ritholtz
We noted earlier in the year (here and here), that the $2 trillion in mortgage resets won’t impact the consumer as much as many...

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7 Jul

NFP: much ado about very little

by Barry Ritholtz
The dismal set has gotten all hot and bothered over the preliminary ADP data, thought by some to be an early read on the NFP report....

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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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