Clipmarks - sam.reckoner's housing

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 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 Bold Fed goes for half-point cut

by sam.reckoner 9-19-2007

They just devalued the currency. It's no surprise that the cost of oil is spiking in US dollars.

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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 Too Much Of Net Worth Is Home-equity

by sam.reckoner 9-13-2007

See full article for many other excellent charts.

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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 Next Financial Crisis Starts Here

by sam.reckoner 8-23-2007

"It is a cliché, but nonetheless true, that the end of each financial crisis sows the seeds of the next. Better regulation has a place, but the Fed is the key to attacking that cycle."

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POPS The Federal Reserve must prolong the party

by sam.reckoner 8-22-2007

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POPS Risky Mortgage Lending Effects

by sam.reckoner 8-22-2007

"If the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates in response to credit market problems, the housing market might get some respite. But the most likely outcome is that prices will remain under pressure."

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POPS Do Not Cut Rates

by sam.reckoner 8-22-2007

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POPS Central banks' easy virtue, easy money

by sam.reckoner 8-17-2007

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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 Angry Homeowners Take to the Web

by sam.reckoner 8-7-2007

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POPS Subprime blues sound familiar

by sam.reckoner 8-3-2007

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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 what Does All This Subprime Stuff Mean for You?

by sam.reckoner 7-19-2007

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POPS Graphical Compilation of Real Estate Values

by sam.reckoner 7-12-2007

national but spotty coverage.