Clipmarks - sam.reckoner's economy

Increasing the FHA limit won't help unless the FHA also participates in the widespread mortgage fraud that had been fueling the real estate bubble nationwide.

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POPS Intel alert on US ‘Achilles heel’

by sam.reckoner 9-28-2007

thank you Captain obvious!

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POPS Subprime Losses -- Fed Won't Save You.

by sam.reckoner 9-25-2007

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POPS This Is Why I Rent: Median Incomes Do Not Support Median Home Prices

by sam.reckoner 9-21-2007

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POPS From a bank run to nationalising deposits

by sam.reckoner 9-19-2007

If you think this can't happen in the USA, think again.

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POPS Fresh fears of recession as US employment falls

by sam.reckoner 9-7-2007

does this surprise anyone? The only growth in jobs over the past eight years has been in medical and real estate related industries.

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POPS Midsummer Meltdown: Prospects for the Stock and Housing Markets

by sam.reckoner 9-3-2007

the PDF file is very good.

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POPS Credit Card Defaults On The Rise In USA

by sam.reckoner 8-28-2007

Now that it's harder to get a home equity loan, people can't make the minimum payments on their credit cards.

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POPS The Federal Reserve must prolong the party

by sam.reckoner 8-22-2007

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POPS Do Not Cut Rates

by sam.reckoner 8-22-2007

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POPS Labor Shortages: It's the pay! Duh!

by sam.reckoner 8-22-2007

With higher pay, there are plenty of U.S. workers to fill jobs, some economists say

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POPS America risks the fate of Rome

by sam.reckoner 8-21-2007

The writer is comptroller general of the United States and head of the US Government Accountability Office I wish I had a better feeling about a "credible champion" emerging from the existing political morass.

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POPS US economy left exposed to consumer recession

by sam.reckoner 8-16-2007

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POPS Fed’s efforts to calm markets not over

by sam.reckoner 8-14-2007

basically, what they are saying is that as the market wakes up to the poor lending of the last 10 years, the fed can basically only provide short-term liquidity, but cannot do anything about fundamental insolvency of the counterparties involved in the large-scale mortgage-bond markets.

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POPS Learn from the fall of Rome, US warned

by sam.reckoner 8-14-2007

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POPS Housing's Three Black Swans

by sam.reckoner 7-30-2007

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POPS HSBC hurt by exposure to US subprime market

by sam.reckoner 7-30-2007

“We have stopped underwriting subprime mortgages and made management changes,” he said. without cheap money, who can afford a half-million dollar condo?

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POPS Signs of US subprime crisis spreading

by sam.reckoner 7-30-2007

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POPS Subprime coming home to roost?

by sam.reckoner 7-26-2007

the charts are good.

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POPS Leveraged finance

by sam.reckoner 7-26-2007

we haven't gotten to the climax of the subprime mortgage mess yet.

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POPS Homebuilders in a Hole

by sam.reckoner 5-10-2007

isn't bankruptcy part of the business plan for these homebuilders?