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RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms

Tue Oct 26 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:01:07 PDT

Plans to cut the federal budget deficit could affect mortgage debt subsidies (articles.latimes.com)
Housing and banking lobbies will kill any attempt to free citizens from debt (marketwatch.com)
Existing House Inventory increases 8.9% Year-over-Year (calculatedriskblog.com)
99 Weeks: When Unemployment Benefits Run Out (cbsnews.com)
The Real Unemployment Rate Is 17% (realclearpolitics.com)
226,000 could lose jobless benefits (economy.ocregister.com)
Backdoor Foreclosure Via Insurance (mindonmoney.wordpress.com)
Liquidity Traps, Falling Velocity, Commodity Hoarding, and Bernanke's Misguided Tinkering (Mish)
Why the Fed's 'Trickle-Down Economics' Is Failing (dailyfinance.com)
Fed is dumpster for banks' smallpox-blanket-grade mortgage bonds (kunstler.com)
What is a currency war, and how do you win one? (slate.com)
US banking regulators in new foreclosures probe (bbc.co.uk)
Banks can't even manage to act in their own interest (nytimes.com)
Commercial Property Prices in U.S. Decline to Eight-Year Low (bloomberg.com)
Global house prices (economist.com)
A $10 million house in bubble days is now a $5 million house (reuters.com)
Unemployment Misery, Lower Earnings For All But Super Wealthy (huffingtonpost.com)
One rich guy who wants to pay higher taxes: Bill Gates Sr. (mcclatchydc.com)
Mukesh Ambani: India billionaire's house in Mumbai (latimes.com)
Housing Cartoons (Last one best) (ritholtz.com)

Mon Oct 25 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:09:40 PDT

Interview with Gary Shilling: housing to fall 20% more (cnbc.com)
Sudden and Dramatic Drop in U.S. House Prices: 5.9% price drop in 2 months (clearcapital.com)
Unmentioned Elephant In Foreclosure Fraud Room: Second Liens (blogs.alternet.org)
Foreclosure crisis is about who gets stuck with $1.1 trillion in losses (businessweek.com)
We'd like to return these bad loans, please (money.cnn.com)
To fix the economy, let bad banks die (latimes.com)
FDIC Called On To Put Bank Of America Into Receivership (commondreams.org)
Mortgage interest deduction subsidizes wealthy at expense of middle class (mybudget360.com)
Reduction in debt subsidies could be in houseowners' futures (contracostatimes.com)
California unemployment: Government job losses (latimes.com)
Housing Calculator Guy Apologizes For Lack Of Negative Numbers (npr.org)
Dubai: Real Estate Crash Sends Prices, Rents Falling (news.yahoo.com)
Apartments are a good investment for some (usatoday.com)
Demand Rising for Rentals Among the Ultrarich (nytimes.com)
Income Inequality Linked to Senate Standoffs (miller-mccune.com)
Health Care and the Campaign (nytimes.com)
Was Fraud the Business Model for the Entire Mortgage Industry? (washingtonsblog.com)
Inside Job (film) (en.wikipedia.org)
Banks defeat regulation (salon.com)
Mobile Homes from Cullman Liquidation (honesty in advertising) (biggeekdad.com)

Stationary wave surfing in Munich, Germany.

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:50:15 PDT

Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking.

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:41:39 PDT

Stephen Fry on language.

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:45:00 PDT

Fri Oct 22 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:41:33 PDT

Bay Area house sales continue slump; San Francisco prices decline (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
Calif. home sales drop 18 percent in Sept. (mercurynews.com)
Drop in Mortgage Applications Reflects Foreclosure Crisis, Rising Rates (dailyfinance.com)
House goes from $3.1M to $1.85M in 3 years (huntingtonhomes.ocregister.com)
Hamptons House Prices Fall as Buyers Seek Lower-Priced Retreats (bloomberg.com)
Calif. Pensions Cost Each Resident $3,000/year (cbs13.com)
If we all smoke a lot of dope, we can close California's budget gap (money.cnn.com)
Credit Card Use Bolsters Self-Worth (miller-mccune.com)
Eviction battle looms over foreclosed Simi house (vcstar.com)
Fannie, Freddie bailout could nearly double in size. No surpise there. (washingtonpost.com)
The Lawyers Who Fight Foreclosures (online.wsj.com)
Mortgage Mess: Shredding the Dream; Major Fight over Enormous Losses Yet to Come (Mish)
Banks' legal troubles mount as everyone seeks payback (miamiherald.com)
China Hides Rampant Inflation in Money Binge (bloomberg.com)
American housing still too expensive (doctorhousingbubble.com)
Actually, Obama is a pretty good president (politifact.com)
Christine O'Donnell Witch Ad (youtube.com)
Christine O'Donnell Witch Ad Parody (youtube.com)
"The Rent Is Too Damn High" Party (biggeekdad.com)

Thu Oct 22 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:28:10 PDT

Recession Worse in SF Than Dot-Com Bust, Distress Index Shows (baycitizen.org)
SoCal housing market 'on hold' (ocregister.com)
Private islands tough sell in current market (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Graph of balance of power between buyers and sellers (baltimoresun.com)
Where Is The Housing Recovery? (forbes.com)
Statement On The Kotok Plagiarism Used in Forbes Link Above (gonzalolira.blogspot.com)
Chicago Sheriff Says NO to Enforcing Foreclosures (4closurefraud.org)
Answers to Your Questions on the Foreclosure Crisis (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
Most shocking discovery yet about how banks hid their toxic mortgages (slate.com)
Largest Financial Swindle in World History (georgewashington2.blogspot.com)
Now THAT Was a Gold Bubble (timiacono.com)
Officials hint Fed on the verge of more easing (finance.yahoo.com)
English mortgage lending drops to 10 year low, despite low interest rates (telegraph.co.uk)
Fed Wants Banks to Buy Back Some Bad Mortgages (nytimes.com)
PIMCO, Blackrock, Fed Seek to Force BofA to Repurchase $47 Billion in Bad Mortgages (Mish)
Bank of America Accused of Racketeering in Foreclosure Lawsuit (bloomberg.com)
US Housing Market Foreclosure-gate Doomsday Revolution Erupts (marketoracle.co.uk)
Intermission, at Best, in Battle Over Foreclosures (nytimes.com)
Foreclosure freeze could put security clearances at risk (washingtonpost.com)
How Can I Profit The Most On The Coming Legalization of Mortgage Fraud? (dvorak.org)

Wed Oct 20 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:40:28 PDT

10% Unemployment; Unemployed Don't Buy Houses (Mish)
Subprime Debacle Act II (seekingalpha.com)
From $1.5 million down to $630,000 in Huntington Beach, CA (doctorhousingbubble.com)
'Foreclosure Mill' Employees Got Gifts For Altering Documents (huffingtonpost.com)
Pimco, NY Fed Said to Seek BofA Repurchase of Mortgages (bloomberg.com)
A market with no mortgages (patrick.net)
How Much Will Foreclosures Weigh Down Big Banks? (dailyfinance.com)
Mortgage Buybacks May Cost Lenders $120 Billion (businessweek.com)
Why should we pay taxes if borrowers don't pay mortgages? (globalresearch.ca)
House Stealing (lewrockwell.com)
Fed Ignores Gold, Targets Higher Inflation And Plays With Fire (forbes.com)
U.S. Infrastructure Spending: No Time to Get Cheap (businessweek.com)
Arguments For Restoring Top Tax Rates (businessforsharedprosperity.org)

Tue Oct 19 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:39:37 PDT

Barney Frank Is Anything But On Housing (investors.com)
Government's mortgage subsidies are screwing families and houseowners (finance.yahoo.com)
The higher the price, the harder to sell the house (lansner.ocregister.com)
Shilling Thinks Housing Will Fall Another 20%, But Owners Will Get Bailed Out (forbes.com)
The Second Leg Down of America's Death Spiral (gonzalolira.blogspot.com)
Why Germany Has It So Good -- and Why America Is Going Down the Drain (informationclearinghouse.info)
Our Culture of Financial Fraud and the Anger of the Honest (Charles Hugh Smith)
They're still smoking our old dope in Australia (news.com.au)
India: Manic buying before a likely panic collapse (indiainfoline.com)
Witness: signatures were faked at foreclosure firm (signonsandiego.com)
Victims of robo-signing scandal won't get their houses back (money.cnn.com)
Florida community feels ripple effects as paperwork issues stall foreclosures (washingtonpost.com)
Bank of America starts thaw in foreclosure freeze (news.yahoo.com)
Mortgage Investors Join Outcry Against Banks (propublica.org)
Wells Fargo Prepares For Tsunami Of Loan Repurchase Demands By Defrauded Investors (zerohedge.com)
Forget The Foreclosures, Here's The Simple Thing That Is Crushing The Banks (businessinsider.com)
The New Tax Man: Big Banks And Hedge Funds (huffingtonpost.com)

Mon Oct 18 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:38:58 PDT

Even well-off borrowers find lenders reluctant to lend (msnbc.msn.com)
32% of Houseowners Expect Prices Fall Next Year, Highest Short-Term Pessimism Ever (Mish)
House Sellers Fail To Cut Prices Enough (rismedia.com)
From a Maine House, a National Foreclosure Freeze (finance.yahoo.com)
Charting the Foreclosure Crisis's Far-Reaching Consequences (dailyfinance.com)
Winners and losers from a foreclosure holiday (washingtonpost.com)
Title company threatening to sue me! (patrick.net)
Banks Fumble Amid Flood Of Foreclosures (npr.org)
Banks were paid 100% for defaulted loans in HAMP (4closurefraud.org)
New Bank Bailouts Under Dodd-Frank Within 12 Months (dailybail.com)
Angelo Mozilo gets to keep 85% of his $470M in ill-gotten gains. What justice? (reuters.com)
Scrutinizing the Elite, Whether They Like It or Not (nytimes.com)
Dreams of the middle class deferred by the recession (csmonitor.com)
Millions of dollars in welfare goes to pay bank fees (sfgate.com)
For America's Future, See Japan (nytimes.com)
No Social Security Increase Next Year (nytimes.com)
Stocks Track Hyperinflation (businessinsider.com)
Can You Live Without Money For a Year? (motherjones.com)
Bank of America Announces Trivial Technical Problems With Small Number of Mortgages (ritholtz.com)

Fri Oct 15 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:36:52 PDT

September house foreclosures top 100,000 for first time (news.yahoo.com)
Israel unlikely champ in global real estate (news.yahoo.com)
Is David J. Stern the poster boy for the foreclosure mess? (news.yahoo.com)
How a gang of predatory lenders fleeced America (carolynbaker.net)
How deadbeat borrowers and shady banks siphon wallets of prudent Americans (doctorhousingbubble.com)
How two civilian sleuths brought foreclosure problems to light (mcclatchydc.com)
Bankers Ignored Signs of Trouble on Foreclosures (nytimes.com)
Foreclosure doomsday scenario? (laobserved.com)
Don't blame the government for mortgage lies (salon.com)
What Angelides Should Have Learned From Pecora (dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com)
Gallup Poll Shows Discretionary Spending at All Time Low (Mish)
Desperate Fed adds more cheese to the mortgage trap: rates hit decades-low of 4.19% (sfgate.com)
Hurry! Hurry! Because Mortgage Rates are Going... (patrick.net)
Fannie and Freddie in a Mess (theatlantic.com)
Lack of proper mortgage paper trail could leave big banks reeling again (washingtonpost.com)
Title has been clouded (moneydaily.blogspot.com)
Mortgages Lost in the Cloud (businessweek.com)
Buffett's Pet Bank Wells Joins Fraudclosure Circus: Wells Caught Lying (zerohedge.com)
Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck in 'Right Wing Radio Duck' (dailybail.com)

Thu Oct 14 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:37:21 PDT

The Coming Collapse of the Real Estate Market (Charles Hugh Smith)
Robo-signers: Mortgage experience not necessary (finance.yahoo.com)
Officials in 50 states launch foreclosure probe (news.yahoo.com)
Foreclosure Flap and Other Housing Industry Woes (knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
Foreclosure mess is housing's latest blood clot (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Foreclosure anger is now hitting election campaign (rgj.com)
JPMorgan On Foreclosure-Gate (businessinsider.com)
Now We're Cooking: Subpoenas! (market-ticker.org)
Evicted Family Breaks Into Their Former House (blogs.wsj.com)
A Missed Assessment of Real Estate Debt Risk (blackswanzine.com)
Overbuilding, High Debt to Obstruct Economic Growth for Years (nreionline.com)
Bernanke Speech on Friday: A new roadmap for the Fed? (calculatedriskblog.com)
Deflation explained (realecontv.com)
The Swindlers Of 2008 Are Now Betting On World Hunger (newsjunkiepost.com)
Rich Guy Feeling Left Out Of Recession (theonion.com)

Wed Oct 13 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:37:39 PDT

Thousands of homedebtors now face foreclosure in wealthy Marin County (online.wsj.com)
NY's Queens Housing Market Remains in Fantasyland (realestatechannel.com)
Deflation's push on the real estate recovery (firsttuesdayjournal.com)
How Hyperinflation Will Happen (gonzalolira.blogspot.com)
Hyperinflation, Part II: What It Will Look Like (gonzalolira.blogspot.com)
Across US, Long "Recovery" Looks Like Recession (nytimes.com)
Debt killed the middle class (guardian.co.uk)
Wall Street Pay: A Record $144 Billion (sanders.senate.gov)
Foreclosure Fraud: It's Worse Than You Think (finance.yahoo.com)
Robo-signers: Mortgage experience not necessary (finance.yahoo.com)
Title Insurance Companies Now Reluctant To Guarantee Foreclosed Properties (dailybail.com)
Foreclosure freeze could undermine housing market (nydailynews.com)
Why The Foreclosure-Gate Scandal Will Only Hurt The Housing Market (businessinsider.com)
Would a U.S. Foreclosure Ban Yield 'Catastrophic' Consequences? (pbs.org)
Here Is Your Chance To Check If You Are The Victim Of Mortgage Fraud (zerohedge.com)
Where's the Note? Demand to see your mortgage note. (seiu.org)
State of California decides to sell, rent for a while (latimes.com)
Insurance lobbyists secretly create & manipulate "grassroots" movements (washingtonindependent.com)

Tue Oct 12 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:35:06 PDT

Real estate, especially in CA, seemed goofy even to least educated (blog.newsok.com)
"Rocket Docket" rushing foreclosures (jaquars.jacksonville.com)
Foreclosure Freeze May Slow U.S. Homebuyers on Legal Worry (bloomberg.com)
US housing market faces new threat from foreclosure fight (telegraph.co.uk)
Unclear Titles Will Sideline Buyers of Foreclosed Properties for Many Months (Mish)
Foreclosure freeze could undermine housing market (mynorthwest.com)
Cold weather will hinder already chilly housing market (minnesota.publicradio.org)
Ohio, Hit Hard by Foreclosure, Now at Epicenter of Fraud Crisis (washingtonindependent.com)
Ohio Attorney General Fights Against Wall Street (nytimes.com)
Central Virginia house prices may not recover for years (dailyprogress.com)
Bernanke's QE2 Heading for the Shoals (Charles Hugh Smith)
Economists Cut US Growth Forecasts Through 2011 (bloomberg.com)
Gold Fever Strikes the Super-Rich (dailyfinance.com)
Foreclosure Crisis: Eroding Trust -- and Ending the Recovery? (dailyfinance.com)
The banking authorities were shocked - shocked! (kunstler.com)
Foreclosure Tightrope for Democrats (nytimes.com)
The Coming Middle-Class Anarchy (gonzalolira.blogspot.com)
Three Horrifying Facts About the US Debt Situation (zerohedge.com)
US Republican candidate in Nazi uniform. Hmmm... (bbc.co.uk)

Mon Oct 11 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:38:02 PDT

Extended foreclosure freeze could add pressure on hurting housing market (thehill.com)
Flawed Foreclosure Documents Thwart House Sales (finance.yahoo.com)
The Finality of Foreclosure Sales (creditslips.org)
After Foreclosure, a Focus on Title Insurance (nytimes.com)
Bank of America's Big Freeze Chills Housing Recovery (finance.yahoo.com)
Attorneys General in 40 States Said to Join on Foreclosures (bloomberg.com)
Mortgage Bonds: "Interconnected Ponzi Scheme with Various Types of Concurrent Fraud" (Mish)
English house prices: Dry rot (economist.com)
Every house for sale in Mountain View, CA overpriced compared to renting same thing (patrick.net)
Realtor admits agents enslave clients in debt for grossly overpriced houses (mcclatchydc.com)
This is the biggest fraud in the history of capital markets (voices.washingtonpost.com)
All Washington has ever done has been to protect Wall Street banks (theautomaticearth.blogspot.com)
Inaction by Treasury's Paulson a boon to Wall Street (kansascity.com)
Jon Stewart On Bank Bailouts And Foreclosure Fraud (dailybail.com)
Is ForeclosureGate About To Become Banking Industry's Stalingrad? (zerohedge.com)
Central bankers are huddling in search of a magic elixir to ward off deflation (washingtonpost.com)
From mortgage to morality: A new crisis? (chicagotribune.com)
The great mortgage mystery: why do they keep paying? (finance.yahoo.com)
Mortgage Bankers Association Strategic Default (thedailyshow.com)
Undocumented Worker (img.allvoices.com)

Thu Aug 5 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:47:16 PDT

Solve Our GSE Problem: Abolish Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac (businessinsider.com)
Housing price drop in San Diego predicted (signonsandiego.com)
Los Angeles: Bel Air 90077 Prices Melt Down (westsideremeltdown.blogspot.com)
Vancouver sales plummet 47% compared to same month last year (fvreb.bc.ca)
Beijing billionaire sees no housing bubble (or doesn't want to) (brisbanetimes.com.au)
China's overhang of empty apartments (marketwatch.com)
Foreclosure reduces a house's sale price 27% (benefitting buyers) (physorg.com)
Rise In Foreclosures Burdens States, Economy (And Benefits Buyers!) (gpb.org)
Government Refi Program Would Kill Housing Market (and benefit buyers) (bayarearealestatetrends.com)
Did Low Interest Rates Cause the Great Housing Convulsion? (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
The Art Of Tax War (finance.yahoo.com)
Pension fund knew about high Bell salaries but didn't stop them (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
Private employers' hiring weak in July (jan.ocregister.com)
Corporate Hiring No Longer Improving; American Less Optimistic (Mish)
Can the Federal Reserve Prevent Deflation? (buygoldandsilversafely.com)
How to ask for a rent reduction (patrick.net)
Deflation in pay (nytimes.com)
Deflation in food: Del Taco to sell 59-cent tacos for 39 cents (fastfood.ocregister.com)

Wed Aug 4 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:46:31 PDT

How far from reality are MLS photos allowed to be? (patrick.net)
It Is Too Soon To Buy-And-Hold Housing (bayarearealestatetrends.com)
Pending Sales of Existing U.S. Houses Decrease 2.6% (bloomberg.com)
Pending Houses Sales Hit New Record Low Again (housingstory.net)
Condos that cost less than cars (money.cnn.com)
How to Lose $2,650,000 in Irvine Real Estate (irvinehousingblog.com)
Real estate agent accused in 'builder kickback' scheme worth $5 million (builderonline.com)
Countrywide Financial agrees to pay $600 million to settle shareholder lawsuits (latimes.com)
The biggest lie about U.S. companies (marketwatch.com)
John Paulson Will Be Wrong This Time (lewrockwell.com)
Personal Income Flat, Private Wages and Salaries Decline in June (Mish)
Commercial real estate maturities will peak in 2012 - $350 billion coming due (mybudget360.com)
Landlord deal prolongs housing crisis for NYers (greenwichtime.com)
Stop Blaming US For Housing Bubble (businessinsider.com)
Steroids for Government's Housing Manipulation? (theatlantic.com)
The Foreclosure Crisis That Will Not Go Away (huffingtonpost.com)
Hostile foreclosures: are you liable for damaging your own house? (ksl.com)
Be careful what you say. Freedom of speech? Going... (news.cnet.com)

Tue Aug 3 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:00:45 PDT

Winning bid on mortgage buys family heartache (sfgate.com)
Foreclosure Inventory May Pull Down Prices To Bottom In 2011 (nuwireinvestor.com)
Housing: Still Flooded (finance.yahoo.com)
5 reasons why California real estate market will weaken (doctorhousingbubble.com)
How Housing Bust Helps Get Disadvantaged Families Into Plush Houses (npr.org)
China's Shark Loan Ponzi Finance (israelfinancialexpert.blogspot.com)
Jim Rogers: The Next Bubble Is Bond Market (news.yahoo.com)
BP Spill May Cost Gulf Coast Houses $56,000 Apiece in Price (bloomberg.com)
Banks failing at a faster pace (news.cincinnati.com)
Banks wouldn't do things that are sleazy and illegal, would they? (chicagonow.com)
Governments remain not just beholden to banks, but scared of them (atimes.com)
Affluent counties evade property tax better than poorer ones (latimes.com)
Property taxes make it hard to justify buying (patrick.net)
America's system is broken, unless you're already rich (theautomaticearth.blogspot.com)
Congress cares about taxes on richest 1% of population, not about the unemployed (nytimes.com)
America is 234 Years Old Today - Is It Finished? (philstockworld.com)

Mon Aug 2 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:59:59 PDT

Foreclosures spread across Maryland (washingtonexaminer.com)
Foreclosures hurt Hawaii condos (and help buyers!) (staradvertiser.com)
Chicago foreclosures mean falling prices, good news for buyers (suntimes.com)
Houses keep falling into foreclosure as gov't programs fail to harm buyers (mcclatchydc.com)
Ownership Subsidies: Dream Houses or Disasters? (newgeography.com)
Housing subsidies should be reduced, says Hank Paulson (washingtonpost.com)
Greenspan Says Decline in House Prices Might Bring Return of Recession (bloomberg.com)
US Now Openly Fabricating Statistics (bullionbullscanada.com)
Slight 2.4% GDP growth signals slowing economy (latimes.com)
With Recovery Slowing, the Jobs Outlook Dims (nytimes.com)
Housing figures don't tell full story (redding.com)
Builders' pricing strategies aimed at creating deceptive sales urgency (latimes.com)
What Would Roosevelt Do? (nytimes.com)
US Treasury Bond Issuance Graph (prudentbear.com)
What about China's "Nuclear Option" of Dumping Treasuries? Can Global Trade Collapse? (Mish)
Wealth, poverty and compassion: The rich are different from you and me (economist.com)
Further Evidence Of Stock Quote Manipulation (zerohedge.com)
House listing on Craigslist, but delisted from MLS. Why? (patrick.net)
Old Debts That Won't Die (nytimes.com)
Robber says he did it to go back to prison for medical care (signonsandiego.com)

Fri Jul 30 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:27:11 PDT

Foreclosures up in 75 pct of top U.S. metro areas (reuters.com)
Foreclosure activity up across most US metro areas (google.com)
Housing Bubble will Not be Reblown; Foreclosures Increase in most Metro Areas (Mish)
Honolulu foreclosures jump 70% (staradvertiser.com)
Three short sales on West Side of LA (doctorhousingbubble.com)
The Threat of Sidelined House Sellers (blogs.wsj.com)
6 Reasons the Housing Market Hasn't Recovered (realestate.yahoo.com)
RealtyTrac Sees "Slim Chance" of Housing Market Recovery (bloomberg.com)
U.S. housing not recovering (breakingviews.com)
Many cities awaiting a housing recovery (msnbc.msn.com)
Can Cities Make Wall Street Pay? (huffingtonpost.com)
All Signs Point to Lower House Prices (irvinehousingblog.com)
Drip after drip of deflation data (blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
Deflation Revisited The Studio Version (theautomaticearth.blogspot.com)
Fed Member's Deflation Warning Hints at Policy Shift (nytimes.com)
With Squeeze on Credit, Microlending Blossoms in US (nytimes.com)
Demographic Doo-doo (pimco.com)
More Builder Evidence of Tax Credit Goose, Post-Credit Bust (calculatedriskblog.com)
In American politics, stupidity is the name of the game (washingtonpost.com)
King-sized foreclosure to hit auction block (detnews.com)

Thu Jul 29 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:26:29 PDT

Phoenix Housing Market Will Get Worse (myfoxphoenix.com)
New House Sales and Bear Market Math (Mish)
Aftermath of Global Housing Bubble Chokes World Banking System (housingstory.net)
Will doomsday scenario hit English house prices? (thisismoney.co.uk)
Germans and Inflation (miller-mccune.com)
What About the Recalculation Into Housing? (wallstreetpit.com)
The Great Decoupling of Corporate Profits from Jobs (robertreich.org)
The job machine grinds to a halt (washingtonpost.com)
The Unemployed, Organized Online, Look to the Midterms (washingtonindependent.com)
Bay Area jobless tap 401k plans (contracostatimes.com)
US Equity Loans Revealing (bullionbullscanada.com)
Citibank branch files to block eviction (therealdeal.com)
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Reform Conference Set (May they die!) (housingpredictor.com)
How to end the filibuster with 51 votes (voices.washingtonpost.com)
What I've learned from the market bubbles (marketwatch.com)
Anchoring Effect And Prices (youarenotsosmart.com)
Banks Defrauding Invesors, Auditors, Regulators, Also Help Delinquent Mortgagees (zerohedge.com)
Living Off the Grid: Free Yourself (off-grid.net)

Wed Jul 28 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:25:40 PDT

Are Bay Area House Prices Really Up 18 Percent? (bayarearealestatetrends.com)
Housing markets: Up again? (economist.com)
Consumer Confidence Sinks to 50.4, a 5-Month Low (Mish)
What is this San Jose house really worth? (patrick.net)
Nevada's Economic Misery May Be America's Future (huffingtonpost.com)
Real estate bubble in Texas much smaller than elsewhere (blogs.marketwatch.com)
Tampa FL area has 9-year building site inventory (tbo.com)
US house ownership reaches 10-year low (smh.com.au)
A decade of declining house prices (informationclearinghouse.info)
Still Speculating In Australian Housing: More Punch, Mate! (blogs.forbes.com)
Banks cherry picking individual foreclosures that show up on the MLS (doctorhousingbubble.com)
Banks Withholding Highend Repossessions Over $300,000 From Market (realestatechannel.com)
Here's house of pricey Vernon pensioner (huntingtonhomes.ocregister.com)
Who wrecked the American economy? (irishcentral.com)
Time to wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (dallasnews.com)
Filibuster Reform Momentum Builds: Senate faces threat of democracy! (huffingtonpost.com)

Tue Jul 27 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:23:08 PDT

Rhode Island housing market set for double-dip (wpri.com)
Housing Market Double Dip is Beginning (housingwire.com)
Don't hold your breath for a bounce in house prices (google.com)
US Housing Good News Just Propaganda (bullionbullscanada.com)
US housing 24pc monthly rise makes sales merely "abysmal" (telegraph.co.uk)
Housing sales jumped in June, but does it really matter? (marketplace.publicradio.org)
Why the housing market hasn't recovered yet (helium.com)
Financial Innovation and Government Subsidies Diminish House Ownership (irvinehousingblog.com)
Rent may no longer be a four letter word (sfgate.com)
Extend and Pretend: The Russian doll version (theautomaticearth.blogspot.com)
Deflation concerns: U.S. may face deflation, a problem Japan understands too well (latimes.com)
New Zealand Reserve Bank should target the housing bubble (nzherald.co.nz)
'Systemic risk' is new buzz word as officials try to CREATE another bubble (washingtonpost.com)
Dumpy house in Palo Alto foreclosed (patrick.net)
Not easy to claim abandoned house next door (bankrate.com)

Wed Jul 21 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Karan) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:19:24 PDT

We Can't Afford To Subsidize Real Estate (article.nationalreview.com)
Real Estate Market is Already in Depression (finance.yahoo.com)
Dramatic price reductions for house in Guerneville, CA (patrick.net)
House prices drop again in San Joaquin County (contracostatimes.com)
Prime Loan Delinquencies Increase for 37th Straight Month (irvinehousingblog.com)
America's new debtor prison: Jail time for those who owe (walletpop.com)
FHA only starting to tighten loan standards (doctorhousingbubble.com)
Countrywide VIP Loan Program Gave Fannie Mae Employees 'Sweetheart Deals' (huffingtonpost.com)
Double dip looks doubly certain (marketwatch.com)
The economy: Weakening recovery brings deja vu (latimes.com)
Charts Show Analysts Historically Overestimate Corporate Earnings by 100% (Mish)
Goldman Sachs and AIG Settle Fraud Suits (bullionbullscanada.com)
How the rich are winning (marketwatch.com)
Bush Tax Cuts For The Very Rich: To Extend or Not to Extend? (newsweek.com)
Cities in US ranked by education (brookings.edu)
A City Outsources Everything. Sky Doesn't Fall. (nytimes.com)
US Credit Rating Is Busted In Land of Bubbles (thejakartaglobe.com)