Don’t Fight the Tape
Early in our career, we learned the importance of recognizing when the market was telling you that you were wrong. While some people...
Chart of the Week: Nasdaq – 6 Month Chart
Last week, the Nasdaq Composite burst through what we described as a “confluence of technical factors:” 200-day moving average...
As Prices Rise, Homeowners Go Deep in Debt to Buy Real Estate
I know I said we were done, but today’s front page WSJ article will be it for a while: "Five years into a housing boom that...
Bush’s Iraq Rating Slips
We haven’t looked at the geopolitical situation closely since the elections. The latest coms to us via Harris Polling : click for...
The Ten Trading Commandments
Ok, enough real estate for a given weekend (or lifetime) — we now return to our originally scheduled programming: I seem to have...
Asset bubble theory
Interesting discussion of hedge funds and housing by Tom Abate at the San Francisco Chronicle. After what’s come to be the usual...
Playboy Bunny or Real Estate Investor?
Gary send in these very interesting comments: Geez, just as the dot.com distorted the allocation of capital and resources (i.e., too much...
What’s the U.S. Savings Rate Really?
> Are we spenders or savers? That’s a significant question looked at by Dan Gross in the Sunday NY Times. Its an issue that has...
Real Estate Wrap up
Search for the words "real estate bubble" on Google and it returns you 1,720,000 hits. This past week, we heard a lot of...
How Housing Lowers CPI
Tony Crescenzi had an interesting article on RealMoney this week. In it, he notes that as the housing market soars, it ends up knocking...