In Big Picture - Posted 5 days ago

Dennis Kneale on the Housing and Credit Crisis, June 27 2008 National Association of REALTORS Back to the President s Report Voices of Real Esta...

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In Calculated Risk - Posted 5 days ago

I've written several times about Temecula as an example of exurbia in California.Look at Temecula on this map. San Diego is far to the south - living ...

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In Bubble Meter - Posted 5 days ago

New home sales have fallen to an 18-year low:Sales of newly constructed homes slumped in October to an annual rate not seen since 1991, according to g...

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In A Fistful of Euros - Posted 1 week ago

Now this is a very interesting question, isn t it? The only honest answer I can give is that I don t know, and indeed I haven t the faintest ide...

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In A Fistful of Euros - Posted 1 week ago

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way TolstoyWell this is an interesting little fable of modern family lif...

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In Calculated Risk - Posted 1 week ago

Please indulge me ...Back in 2005, I wrote: Of all the areas experiencing a housing boom, the areas most at risk have had the greatest increase in rea...

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In Calculated Risk - Posted 1 week ago

Three banks were closed by the FDIC yesterday. To put these failures into perspective, here are two graphs: the first shows the number of bank failure...

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In Calculated Risk - Posted 1 week ago

From the LA Times: California unemployment jumps to 8.2%, third-highest in the U.S. California's unemployment rate rose dramatically in October to 8.2...

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In Calculated Risk - Posted 2 weeks ago

From DataQuick: Bay Area median price tumbles to $375K; sales reach high for '08 Bay Area homes sold at their fastest pace in 17 months in October as ...

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In Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Se - Posted 2 weeks ago

Once again, Richard Green's refutation of the right-wing hack claim that Fannie and Freddie caused the crisis by leading poor private-sector financier...

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