Housing Crash News ~ good source for allot of Information in the housing market (All of these are links to articles go to the link to view them)

http://patrick.net/housing/crash.html

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Mon Aug 16 2010

Let house prices shrink to affordable levels! (market-ticker.org)

Phoenix house prices down (azcentral.com)

Washington State house sales tumble (columbian.com)

Let's Use Tax Money To Subsidize Manhattan Luxury Condos! Good idea? (bloomberg.com)

US Using "Really Stupid Strategy" to Hide Bank Losses (Mish)

Government doesn't report number of houses held on bank's books (cnbc.com)

Banks to benefit most from White House effort to fight foreclosures (thehill.com)

Millions stay put, await foreclosure or help (newsok.com)

US banks seizing houses at record levels (telegraph.co.uk)

Houses lost to foreclosure up 6 pct from last year (finance.yahoo.com)

US housing market statistics (realestateconsulting.com)

Bubble Psychology and Lessons from History (theautomaticearth.blogspot.com)

Thoughts of real estate double dip deter investors (usatoday.com)

US 'Virtually Certain' to Fall Into A New Recession (cnbc.com)

Hoenig calls Fed policy 'dangerous gamble' (marketwatch.com)

Tax reform for the rich and ultra-rich (newyorker.com)

The Plutocracy Prevention Act (thenation.com)

Portable Housing, Made in Montana (nytimes.com)

Philadelphia Housing Authority chief Carl Greene facing foreclosure (philly.com)

Fri Aug 13 2010

Debts Rise, and Go Unpaid, as Bust Erodes House Equity (nytimes.com)

Burbank still in housing bubble after 40% decline (doctorhousingbubble.com)

Housing market racking up bad grades (chicagotribune.com)

Metro Detroit house sales fall in July (freep.com)

Housing supply on the rise in South Florida (miamiherald.com)

Florida's largest REMAX real estate company franchise ceasing operations (sun-sentinel.com)

Builders Shrink Houses to Fit Buyers' Newly Modest Tastes (rismedia.com)

With housing oversupplied, deflation is a threat (kansascity.com)

Foreclosures up 6% from last year (finance.yahoo.com)

What's the best way to default on your mortgage? (chicagonow.com)

Fed can't do much more to avoid a double dip (marketwatch.com)

Shiller sees double-dip if jobs aren't created (marketwatch.com)

US Plans More Aid for Jobless Homedebtors; NOTHING for Responsible Renters (nytimes.com)

HUD Offers Interest-Free Loans to Homedebtors; NOTHING for Responsible Renters (businessweek.com)

Housing Summit May Yield Fannie and Freddie Clues (abcnews.go.com)

Assumability: A hidden potential value to FHA loans (old but interesting)
(washingtonpost.com)

U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know It (bloomberg.com)

Taleb Says Government Bonds to Collapse, Avoid Stocks (bloomberg.com)

Let's do a WikiLeaks on the SEC (blogs.forbes.com)

No place like demolished home (mv-voice.com)

Thu Aug 12 2010

Good news for buyers, bad new for sellers (startribune.com)

Housing Price Rise Actually A Head Fake (blogs.forbes.com)

Californians' income falls for first time since WWII (sacbee.com)

Low mortgage rates fail to move market (msnbc.msn.com)

Squatting Becoming Way of Life for Delinquent Borrowers (irvinehousingblog.com)

Short sale gridlock is 'dizzying' (mortgage.ocregister.com)

Interview with Patrick (patrick.net)

House Prices: Demographics Giveth and Taketh Away (dmarron.com)

Commercial Landlords Worry As Barnes & Noble Contemplates Alternatives (retailtrafficmag.com)

America Is 'Bankrupt Mickey Mouse Economy': CIO (cnbc.com)

Tracy, CA pair charged in $4.5 million.real estate scam (contracostatimes.com)

Scammy Wells Fargo loses debit card suit (sfgate.com)

Banking failures and swindling wealth from working and middle class Americans (mybudget360.com)

Obama administration to provide $3B in banker, oops, housing aid (finance.yahoo.com)

Inept Repairs Leave Economy Stalling (dukenews.duke.edu)

The Fed is not your friend (theautomaticearth.blogspot.com)

Fed Insiders Can Make Infinite Profits (Mish)

Reagan insider: GOP destroyed economy (Republicans, skip this one) (marketwatch.com)

Australia: Did you remember to sell the house today? (prosper.org.au)

Man Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From "National Security Letter" After 6 Years (wired.com)

Wed Aug 11 2010

Cheaper in San Mateo, CA but still not cheap enough (patrick.net)

Foreclosures increase in affluent Park Ridge and northwest suburbs (chicagonow.com)

"Buy and Bail" Houseowners Get Past Loan Restrictions (bloomberg.com)

Personal income drops 7.1 percent in Naples, Florida (miamiherald.com)

Jobless alarms fall on deaf ears of investors (marketwatch.com)

Fed to resume buying Treasury bonds with newly printed cash (latimes.com)

Top Fed Official Warns Fed Risks Repeating Past Mistakes (huffingtonpost.com)

Quantitative Easing Take II; Uncharted Territory (Mish)

The Federal Reserve's Magma Chart (economix.blogs.nytimes.com)

James Bullard and the Fed's incredible threat (csmonitor.com)

Greenspan: A Charlatan Unmasked (bullionbullscanada.com)

Fannie and Freddie's Foreclosure Barons (motherjones.com)

The peril of false bottoms (atimes.com)

Afraid of deflation? Heres what to do: avoid debt! (bankrate.com)

The Rise and Fall of the Dollar (zerohedge.com)

Realtors got talent (for corrupting our laws with lobbyists) (PDF - sabor.com)

Tue Aug 10 2010

Northeast of Silicon Valley, recession's effects are magnified (latimes.com)

Far From the Poor, Real Estate Woes Nip at Lake Forest (nytimes.com)

Belvedere house up eightfold, but not any nicer than it was (patrick.net)

Unsold Housing Inventory Grows (blogs.wsj.com)

Foreclosed On -- By the US (online.wsj.com)

Study Reveals Foreclosures Result of Excessive Debt (irvinehousingblog.com)

Worrying Numbers Behind Underwater Houseowners (dailyfinance.com)

Freddie Mac: $4.7 billion Loss, REO Inventory increases 79% YoY (calculatedriskblog.com)

FHA Insured Mortgages, a Disaster in the Making? (realestatechannel.com)

Housing Insanity: MORE debt, LOWER downpayments (theatlantic.com)

Our Economic Shell Game (taxhome.blogspot.com)

Inflation the Path to Future Deflation (greatdepression2006.blogspot.com)

Billionaire developer Paul Milstein dies (therealdeal.com)

Per Capita Income Falls In Wealthy Bridgeport Metro Area (courant.com)

United States Per Capita Personal Income (bber.unm.edu)

America goes dark (nytimes.com)

The hottest housing market: Information (washingtonpost.com)

The Best Fiscal Stimulus: Trust (miller-mccune.com)

Founding 3-person startup with no revenue better than working for Goldman (adgrok.com)

Free Trial of the Property Finder

Mon Aug 9 2010

S.F. house prices drop as distressed sales rise (Case Shiller wrong) (sfgate.com)

Maui house sales show continuing decline in median price (staradvertiser.com)

NYC delinquency rate continues upward as distressed properties list grows (therealdeal.com)

Seller Beware: New "Ideal Buyer" Scam (9news.com)

Real estate called 'poor investment' (lansner.ocregister.com)

Stranguflation: Deflation and Inflation Where it Hurts America Most (huffingtonpost.com)

Deflation it is (theautomaticearth.blogspot.com)

Underemployment 18.4% in all Age Groups (Mish)

Jobless and Staying That Way (nytimes.com)

Are Fed-Up American Workers Getting Their Gumption Back? (newsweek.com)

Calif. deal put Senate candidate Jeff Greene on front line of mortgage mess (miamiherald.com)

Contra Costa's $100,000-plus public pension club grew 25% last year (contracostatimes.com)

Battle Looms Over Huge Costs of Public Pensions (nytimes.com)

Raise My Taxes, Mr. President! (newsweek.com)

A Gift the Wealthy Don't Need (nytimes.com)

Greenspan Calls for Repeal of All the Bush Tax Cuts (nytimes.com)

Housing Policy's Third Rail: Fannie and Freddie (nytimes.com)

Fannie and Freddie Now Part of Federal Budget (PDF - cbo.gov)

But Will It Make You Happy? (nytimes.com)

Are we in control of our own decisions? (ted.com)


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