Attention RE Agents: NAR Spin is Counter-Productive !
We have had a god-awful run of Housing data. New and Existing Home Sales, Defaults and Foreclosure data, even the Case Shiller report...
Futures Strong
Stocks snapped a two-day decline, U.S. index futures rose and copper rallied after China’s manufacturing and Australia’s economy grew...
What Makes America Great: Layoffs!
I am watching Squawk Box around 6:30am as I get dressed this morning. The conversation turns to various incentives in Germany, where...
CrowdQuery: Will Ratings Agencies Escape Justice?
The Bloomberg/BusinessWeek headline was enough to ruin your evening: SEC Declines to Sue Moody’s Over Inflated Ratings. The facts were...
Tuesday Reads
Quite a few interesting reads on my browser today: • Is the Death of equities exaggerated? (Marketwatch) Investors in U.S. seem to be...
Bloomberg’s Tom Keene: Radio guy, Raconteur, Blogger
In addition to everything else he does — Bloomberg Surveillance, Bloomberg on the Economy, etc — Tom Keene is now blogging...
Psychological Stages of a RE Bubble Market
In light of the latest Case Shiller data was out this morning, I wanted to draw your attention to a fascinating chart from the Irvine...
SCIENTISTIC FICTION
The following was written by Lakshman Achuthan and Anirvan Banerji, co-founders of ECRI: ~~~ “As Geoffrey H. Moore once reminded us, if...
Does Extended Jobless Benefits Impede Employment ? (No)
~~~ Sources: Barro’s OpEd: The Folly of Subsidizing Unemployment...
Coming Soon: Fiat 500
The Fiat 500 appears to be heading to American shores as early as January 2011, a product of the Fiat takeover of Chrysler. 2011 will...