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Housing Prices ’
Sep 24th, 2009 |
By Bill Bonner |
Category: Politics & Economics
The inflation/deflation debate is hot… It crackles and pops like a pine fire. But it gives off little helpful light. Abe Lincoln may have read by the light of an open fire. But when we tried it, we singed our eyebrows. It made us suspicious of Old Abe; maybe he wasn’t quite as truthful as he pretended to be. Later, we realized he was a mountebank. But that’s another story…
Tags: Auto Sales, Bill Bonner, budget deficits, deflation, Federal Reserve, gold, Gold Prices, Housing Prices, inflation, Modern Depression, US debt, US dollar, US economy
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Aug 21st, 2009 |
By Bill Bonner |
Category: Politics & Economics
The dollar fell to $1.42 per euro yesterday. Many believe it is the Achilles Heel of the entire world financial system – including Warren Buffett.
Tags: Bill Bonner, china, Crude Oil Prices, economics, euro, Gold Prices, Housing Prices, Monetary Inflation, politics, US deficit, US dollar, US Foreclosures, US housing crisis
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Aug 10th, 2009 |
By Jason Simpkins |
Category: Real Estate Investments
Having last month addressed concerns about inflation by outlining a stimulus “exit strategy,” U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke may turn his attention to the growing threat posed by commercial real estate at the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) two-day meeting taking place tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday.
Tags: Barclays Capital, BCS, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, Housing Prices, Jason Simpkins, MPG, US housing crisis
Posted in Real Estate Investments |
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Mar 23rd, 2009 |
By John Mauldin |
Category: Real Estate Investments, Top Story
Last Tuesday the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by my friend Gary Shilling and Richard LeFrak. They offer a simple solution for the housing crisis: give foreigners who will come to the US and buy a home resident status, green cards).
Tags: consumer spending, Green Cards, Housing Bubble, Housing Construction, Housing Industry, Housing Prices, John Mauldin, Stimulus Package, US housing crisis, US immigration, US unemployment crisis
Posted in Real Estate Investments, Top Story |
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Jan 28th, 2009 |
By William Patalon III |
Category: Financial News
FOMC Brainstorms; Dimon and Lewis Bet Big on Financials; Former BofA CEO Thain Reinvents Self; Yahoo! Posts Fourth-Quarter Loss; Consumer Confidence Hits Record Low; S&P/Case-Schiller Housing Index Plunges 18%
Tags: BAC, Consumer Confidence, Fomc, Housing Prices, JPM, SEC, US Banking, US economy, US stocks, William Patalon III, YHOO
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Jun 14th, 2008 |
By John Mauldin |
Category: Politics & Economics
Whip Inflation Now…Where Can We Get Help on Inflation?…The Patient Died Anyway…Inflation in Asia and Europe…There Are No Good Solutions
Tags: Asia, Bernanke, Consumer Price Index, ECB, economics, energy prices, europe, European Economy, fed, Food Prices, Housing Prices, inflation, Oil Prices, Paul Volker, politics, President Nixon, recession, Trichet, Unemployment Levels
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Jun 6th, 2008 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Featured, Financial News
A new report by Paris-based economic think tank the OECD warns of a severe house price crash in the UK.
The report predicts that UK house prices will crash by 10% by 2010 and that, with consumer spending slowing, the Bank of England will eventually need to cut interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point to 4.25% next year.
Ben Traynor in The Daily Reckoning explains how a house price crash in the UK will affect the country’s economy…
Tags: Ben Traynor, Credit Crunch, Fleet Street Daily, global credit crisis, Global Credit Crunch, Global Recession, House Prices, housing crisis, Housing Prices, inflation, recession, Uk House Prices
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