http://www.inveslogic.com/tags/housing-bubble Blog Articles Tagged with 'housing-bubble' at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/calculated-risk/1150150?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble Just catching up after my trip!S&P/Case-Shiller released their monthly Home Price Indices for October earlier this week. This includes prices for 20 individual cities, and two composite indices (10 cities and 20 cities). Note: This is not the quarter... Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:52:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/calculated-risk/1150150?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/brad-delongs-semi-daily-journal/1150126?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble He writes: Community Reinvestment Act Makes Bankers Stupid, According to AEI Research: Many people who are more expert than I in the housing market have already debunked the CRA myth. Here are just a few: Janet Yellen, Menzie Chinn, Randall Kroszner... Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:24:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/brad-delongs-semi-daily-journal/1150126?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/calculated-risk/1149897?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble Here is a graph of the U.S. savings rate as a percent of disposable personal income. Click on graph for larger image in new window.It looks like savings from lower gasoline prices is showing up as savings - as opposed to other consumption - and this ... Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:33:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/calculated-risk/1149897?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149872?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble From MarketWatch.com:Resales of U.S. single-family homes and condos fell a surprisingly bad 8.6% in November ... the National Association of Realtors reported Tuesday, even as home prices fell at the fastest annual pace on record. ...In the past year... Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:45:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149872?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/brad-delongs-semi-daily-journal/1149863?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble Paul Krugman: Southern discomfort: Southern discomfort Heartrending story in the Times about the woes of South Carolina. In fact, unemployment rates in the Southeast have risen more than in the United States as a whole; there s a sort of Slump Be... Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:59:14 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/brad-delongs-semi-daily-journal/1149863?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/brad-delongs-semi-daily-journal/1149613?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble Glenn Hubbard and Charlie Mayer call for the effective nationalization of the mortgage finance sector: Low-Interest Mortgages Are the Answer: Recent news articles suggest that the Treasury Department is considering a plan to offer a 4.5% mortgage for... Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:45:47 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/brad-delongs-semi-daily-journal/1149613?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/calculated-risk/1149667?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble they just get recycled on the WSJ opinion page.R. Glenn Hubbard and Christopher Mayer are back again: Low-Interest Mortgages Are the Answer. Here was my response to their previous proposal. I found this sentence interesting: While fundamental factor... Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:04:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/calculated-risk/1149667?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149625?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble The New York Times reflects on The Economist's 2008 predictions:For 23 years, The Economist has issued bold predictions for the coming year in its thick December special issue. ... About 2008: sorry, reads a note from the issue s editor, Danie... Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:21:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149625?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149626?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble Bad news for homeowners from Zillow:American homeowners will collectively lose more than $2 trillion in home value by the end of 2008, according to a report released Monday. ...Some 11.7 million Americans are now underwater, owing more on their mor... Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:23:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149626?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1149481?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble This, it seems, is the question of the day. According to the IMF Spain s economy faces a contraction of at least one percent next year. And the IMF stress that the risks to this forecast remain on the downside since the country s real-estat... Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:57:23 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/a-fistfull-of-euros/1149481?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149379?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble NYU-Stern School of Business professor Thomas F. Cooley has an article on Forbes.com explaining why foreclosure prevention efforts are failing. It all seems kosher until the second to last paragraph where he completely fabricates a sentence in the ... Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:00:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149379?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149387?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble ...And so did Bubble Meter.Here's what Dean Baker had to say in 2006:The decline in housing prices will sharply limit the extent to which people can borrow against their home to support their consumption. This will cause savings to rebound from their... Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:03:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149387?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149117?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble The U.S. Treasury apparently wants to fight the symptom by recreating the problem: The plan, which is in the development stage, would temporarily use the clout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to encourage banks to lend at rates as low... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:09:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149117?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149120?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble From a blog at The Atlantic:Unless I were allowed to rely exclusively on David Lereah (until recently the permabullish economist for the National Association of Realtors) I would be hard put to find one economic expert who had completely missed the h... Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:56:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149120?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149123?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble I'm sure you've all heard this by now: The United States is officially in a recession.The National Bureau of Economic Research a private, nonprofit research organization said its group of academic economists who determine business cycles decided ... Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:08:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149123?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149125?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble Exactly four years ago today, Art Laffer, one of the founders of the quack economic theory of supply-side economics, denied the existence of the housing bubble:The price of housing is one of those topics that grabs just about everyone s attention. ... Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:47:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1149125?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/big-picture/1148737?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble What came together was not only a cyclical undervaluing of risk [but also] a housing bubble, and triple-A ratings were misguided. There was virtually nobody who saw that low-probability event as a possibility. With that line, former Treasury S... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:55:28 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/big-picture/1148737?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/brad-delongs-semi-daily-journal/1148809?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble Calculated Risk issues an invitation: Calculated Risk: Hoocoodanode?: Earlier today, I saw Greg Bush economist Mankiw was a little touchy about a Krugman blog comment. My reaction was that Mankiw has some explaining to do. A key embarrassment for ... Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:43:45 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/brad-delongs-semi-daily-journal/1148809?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/calculated-risk/1148858?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble Earlier today, I saw Greg Bush economist Mankiw was a little touchy about a Krugman blog comment. My reaction was that Mankiw has some explaining to do. A key embarrassment for the economics profession in general, and Bush economists Greg Mankiw an... Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:09:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/calculated-risk/1148858?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1148832?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble The Hot Property blog recommends the book Chain of Blame, which is about the subprime mortgage crisis.Meanwhile, I have The Trillion Dollar Meltdown on my Christmas list. Since there have been so many comparisons of our current situation with the Gre... Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:44:00 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/bubble-meter/1148832?rsstype=tag&tag=housing-bubble