Quell the Commentary!
> If only no one had mentioned Fannie or Freddie over the weekend . . . > After a Yahoo Tech Ticker appearance earlier this month...
Housing Starts
I am otherwise jammed up, so I didn’t get a chance to take apart the Housing Starts data — but damn! if these two charts (via...
Lessons for Battered Investors
Here is another segment from Yahoo! > Note that the original piece is here: Lessons Learned From A Dangerous Year > Source: Three...
Stocks Breaking Down on Volume
My partner Kevin sends me a reminder this morning that "When the markets break down investors look for alternative ways to make...
PPI July 2008
The latest Producer Price Index for Finished Goods is out, and its screaming hot: It advanced 1.2% in July (seasonally adjusted). 1.2%...
IMF Economist: Credit Crisis to Worsen; Large Bank May Fail
>"The worst is yet to come in the U.S.”-Kenneth Rogoff, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund...
Home Builders: Approaching a Bottom ?
Seiders seems to be rather reasonable, he is looking for modest starts tomorrow. click for video Note that he actually is looking for...
Open Thread: Fundamental, Technical or Psychological Factors ?
On CNBC today, someone blamed today’s selloff on the weekend Barron’s piece trashing Phony and Fraudy. That raises an...
Substantial Implicit Subsidy to GSE Shareholders...
I came across an interesting Fed paper the other day from 2005. It looked at how much subsidy was built into shareholder’s equity...