Audio: Money Markets and More for Monday, May 19th
Housing and wholesale inflation could rattle Wall Street this week. And what should you do with that tax rebate?...

Donald Trump has found a buyer for his $100 million Palm Beach mansion
The Donald gets what The Donald wants. Well, at least when it came to his 80,000-square-foot Palm Beach mansion on County Road, which it loo...

Another Week, Another Rally
One week ago I said that Technically, the S&P 500 held its 20 day moving average (a good sign) but the bulls will need to really circle the...

There Is Only One Place To Go From Where We Are
It s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. Nassau s foreclosure-related filings last month jumped 113 percent from a year ago. ...

Hoping the Housing Crisis Is Over
At long last, some good news from a pair of front-line economic reports. Housing starts and new housing permits popped higher last month, th...

The Home Start Numbers Are Not a Positive
Anybody in the residential real estate biz can tell you that rentalscompete with sales. Sales boom, rentals suffer. Rentals suffer, sales bo...

Is home construction activity really up?
Let me quickly dispel any notion that the 8.2% surge in housing starts in April reported by the Commerce Department on May 16 was a positive...

Home Builders Pessimistic: Pricing pressure for the foreseeable future
In general, most markets are pretty tough. We're still seeing pricing pressure out there and I think for the foreseeable future we're still...