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Now That Borrowing Has Reached Its Limit, The Consumer Economy Is Devolving
The Business Insider The housing bubble offered the ambitious debt serf a rare opportunity to lie and leverage just like Wall Street. Anyone with sufficient chutzpah could buy a number of houses with no-document "liar loans" with option-adjustable rate loans at super-low … and more » |
April 9, 2011
Now That Borrowing Has Reached Its Limit, The Consumer Economy Is Devolving – The Business Insider
Puget Sound condo supply shrinks – Puget Sound Business Journal (blog)
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Puget Sound condo supply shrinks
Puget Sound Business Journal (blog) My colleague, Jeanne Lang Jones, explained in a recent story that there may be fewer buyers and more renters in the market these days because the deflation of the housing bubble has pushed the interest in home ownership down. So developers and renters … and more » |
Fighting housing bubble needs subsidized homes – Global Times
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Fighting housing bubble needs subsidized homes
Global Times The massive decline of housing prices before and after the previous financial crisis in Hong Kong left many people in debt. The property bubble in Japan also triggered an economic recession nationwide. It was not simply a matter of housing price … |
Make budget scrutiny full-time job – The Daily Advertiser
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Make budget scrutiny full-time job
The Daily Advertiser The economy has been bad since the housing bubble turned into a national recession in December 2007. Unemployment rose, so did the need for safety-net programs, but sales tax revenue dipped. The recovery has been slow. If the reassessment of property … and more » |
Make budget scrutiny full-time job – Opelousas Daily World
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Make budget scrutiny full-time job
Opelousas Daily World The economy has been bad since the housing bubble turned into a national recession in December 2007. Unemployment rose, so did the need for safety-net programs, but sales tax revenue dipped. The recovery has been slow. If the reassessment of property … |
Investors Lose Again – The Daily Sound
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Investors Lose Again
The Daily Sound We had the tech bubble, the housing bubble and the global financial crisis. So it would be expected for the average investor to only earn 2.6%, right? Well not when the major asset classes in the financial markets returned 4.7% to 10.5%. … |
EDITORIAL: Make budget scrutiny full-time job – The Daily Advertiser
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EDITORIAL: Make budget scrutiny full-time job
The Daily Advertiser The economy has been bad since the housing bubble turned into a national recession in December 2007. Unemployment rose, so did the need for safety-net programs, but sales tax revenue dipped. The recovery has been slow. If the reassessment of property … and more » |
EDITORIAL: Make budget scrutiny full-time job – The Daily Advertiser
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EDITORIAL: Make budget scrutiny full-time job
The Daily Advertiser The economy has been bad since the housing bubble turned into a national recession in December 2007. Unemployment rose, so did the need for safety-net programs, but sales tax revenue dipped. The recovery has been slow. If the reassessment of property … and more » |
EDITORIAL: Make budget scrutiny full-time job – Opelousas Daily World
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EDITORIAL: Make budget scrutiny full-time job
Opelousas Daily World The economy has been bad since the housing bubble turned into a national recession in December 2007. Unemployment rose, so did the need for safety-net programs, but sales tax revenue dipped. The recovery has been slow. If the reassessment of property … and more » |
EDITORIAL: Make budget scrutiny full-time job – Opelousas Daily World
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EDITORIAL: Make budget scrutiny full-time job
Opelousas Daily World The economy has been bad since the housing bubble turned into a national recession in December 2007. Unemployment rose, so did the need for safety-net programs, but sales tax revenue dipped. The recovery has been slow. If the reassessment of property … and more » |
Goldman Sachs chief Blankfein was ’stunned’ by SEC lawsuit: extract from Money … – Telegraph.co.uk
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Goldman Sachs chief Blankfein was 'stunned' by SEC lawsuit: extract from Money …
Telegraph.co.uk … proprietary bet by a small group of Goldman traders ? led by Dan Sparks, Josh Birnbaum and Michael Swenson ? beginning in December 2006, that the housing bubble would collapse and that the securities tied to home mortgages would rapidly lose value. … and more » |
Goldman Sachs chief Blankfein was ’stunned’ by SEC lawsuit: extract from Money … – Telegraph.co.uk
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Goldman Sachs chief Blankfein was 'stunned' by SEC lawsuit: extract from Money …
Telegraph.co.uk … proprietary bet by a small group of Goldman traders ? led by Dan Sparks, Josh Birnbaum and Michael Swenson ? beginning in December 2006, that the housing bubble would collapse and that the securities tied to home mortgages would rapidly lose value. … and more » |
April 7, 2011
Economist: Southeast Texas shows strong recovery – Beaumont Enterprise
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Economist: Southeast Texas shows strong recovery
Beaumont Enterprise Nathaniel Karp, chief economist for BBVA Compass Bank, said Texas avoided the real estate bubble that blew up in other areas from California to Florida, taking with it billions of dollars in home values. While housing prices have declined everywhere, … and more » |
IMF backs LTV cap to prevent housing bubbles – Telegraph.co.uk
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IMF backs LTV cap to prevent housing bubbles
Telegraph.co.uk Britain is considering such measures as part of the so-called "macro-prudential toolkit" the regulator will wield to deflate a housing bubble before it bursts. The move would prevent lenders offering 125pc loans, as Northern Rock infamously did before … and more » |
Sweden Must Solve Housing Supply Shortage to Avoid Bubble, Attefall Warns – Bloomberg
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Sweden Must Solve Housing Supply Shortage to Avoid Bubble, Attefall Warns
Bloomberg Swedish house prices rose during the financial crisis even as the economy contracted and unemployment swelled, prompting the National Housing Credit Guarantee Board in February 2010 to warn that the country was in the grips of a property bubble. … and more » |
Swedish House Market Needs Supply, Not More Caps, Attefall Says – BusinessWeek
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Swedish House Market Needs Supply, Not More Caps, Attefall Says
BusinessWeek Swedish house prices rose during the financial crisis even as the economy contracted and unemployment swelled, prompting the National Housing Credit Guarantee Board in February 2010 to warn that the country was in the grips of a property bubble. … |
IMF: give regulators more power to cap mortgage lending – Citywire.co.uk
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IMF: give regulators more power to cap mortgage lending
Citywire.co.uk The UK regulator is already looking at implementing such tools to prevent another housing bubble as seen before the economic crisis. The new rules would prevent lenders offering 125% mortgages, made famous by Northern Rock. … and more » |
Swedish House Market Needs Supply, Not More Caps, Attefall Says – San Francisco Chronicle
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Swedish House Market Needs Supply, Not More Caps, Attefall Says
San Francisco Chronicle Swedish house prices rose during the financial crisis even as the economy contracted and unemployment swelled, prompting the National Housing Credit Guarantee Board in February 2010 to warn that the country was in the grips of a property bubble. … and more » |
Swedish Housing Needs Supply, No More Caps, Attefall Says – BusinessWeek
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Swedish Housing Needs Supply, No More Caps, Attefall Says
BusinessWeek Swedish house prices rose during the financial crisis even as the economy contracted and unemployment swelled, prompting the National Housing Credit Guarantee Board in February 2010 to warn that the country was in the grips of a property bubble. … and more » |
Swedish Real Estate: Supply Shortage Too? – The Business Insider
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Swedish Real Estate: Supply Shortage Too?
The Business Insider Sweden's real-estate market needs a bigger property supply instead of tougher mortgage lending rules if the largest Nordic economy is to avoid a bubble, Housing Minister Stefan Attefall said. The number of completed apartments in Sweden averaged 20000 … and more » |