Housing
Oct 20th, 2008 |
By Jonas Elmerraji |
Category: Housing, Macroeconomics
“No Halting the Market’s Avalanche,” reads a headline in the Boston Globe. In the last year, the world stock markets have turned from business as usual into what the Motley Fool recently called “the stock market week from hell.” Despite the fact that the economy is top news right now, ...
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Tags: Buying Stakes in Banks, Dow Joens Industrial Average, High interest rates, Housing Market peaked, Jonas Elmerraji, Subprime Mortgages, The Housing Crisis
Posted in Housing, Macroeconomics |
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Aug 21st, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Housing, Investing Strategies
“All a man has to do to get rich in America is find out where people are going, get there first and buy land.”
— Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Bob Hope, the great American comedian and Hollywood star, was actually born in England. He once quipped, “I left England at the age of ...
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Tags: Bob Hope's real estate, land banking, land banking in the stock market, land ownership, Professional Land Corp
Posted in Housing, Investing Strategies |
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Jul 17th, 2008 |
By Penny Sleuth Contributor |
Category: Energy, Housing, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
As I wrote last week, it’s pretty clear times are tough right now. With three quarters of the population thinking we’re already in a recession and the market sinking by the day, I don’t think there’s any more debating as to whether or not we’re in bear market territory.
So the ...
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Tags: decrease in Home sales, Decrease in Market Index Levels, Increase in Energy Prices, Market Hasn't Bottomed Yet
Posted in Energy, Housing, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics |
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Mar 17th, 2008 |
By Jim Nelson |
Category: Housing, Penny stocks
Bankrupt investors leapt from buildings. Frantic communities caused bank runs. Many poor souls lost themselves at the bottom of an illegal bottle of booze… It was Oct. 29, 1929 — the day of the worst stock market crash in our nation’s history.
Mass confusion ensued, and a worldwide, decade-long Depression emerged. ...
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Tags: adjustable rate mortgage, two million homeowners
Posted in Housing, Penny stocks |
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Mar 6th, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Housing
After World War II, there was a worldwide shortage of metal. What metal there was first went toward rebuilding industrial capacity. The big firms used it to refit or rebuild their factories. Water pipes were not high on the priority list.
Before the war, water pipes were usually over-engineered. That is, ...
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Tags: infrastructure spending, water infrastructure
Posted in Commodities, Housing |
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Feb 25th, 2008 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Energy, Housing
The commodity market is no different than an old fish market. When the fishermen have a lot of salmon sitting on ice, they drop the price to get rid of it. During the warm winter of 2008, a lot of natural gas is “sitting on ice,” which means its price ...
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Tags: Housing bubble, natural gas demand, Natural gas industry
Posted in Commodities, Energy, Housing |
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Feb 5th, 2008 |
By Byron King |
Category: Commodities, Housing, International
2007 is over and 2008 is already off to a volatile start. It is time to look ahead to what the rest of the year has in store for investors. As many forecasters and prognosticators have been doing for the past month or so, I will now attempt to look ...
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Tags: 2008 housing economy, 2008 Iraqi oil production, Chinese pollution
Posted in Commodities, Housing, International |
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Jan 4th, 2008 |
By Christopher Hancock |
Category: Housing, International, Macroeconomics
“Don’t be one of those people who go through life pretending not to know what they know… Don’t waste time wishing the world is different than it is… Don’t expect people to be something they can’t.”
— Richard Russo
Hillary, Mitt, Barack or Mike… Who’s to say?
Americans turned to the Hawkeye State ...
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Tags: American debt, politician heroes, rich foreigners
Posted in Housing, International, Macroeconomics |
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Dec 21st, 2007 |
By Christopher Hancock |
Category: Housing
“I do not doubt that a low U.S. federal funds rate in response to the dot-com crash, and especially the 1% rate set in mid-2003 to counter potential deflation, lowered interest rates on adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and may have contributed to the rise in U.S. home prices.”
— Alan Greenspan
Morgan Stanley ...
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Tags: ARM's, Federal funds rate
Posted in Housing |
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Nov 30th, 2007 |
By Christopher Hancock |
Category: Housing, International
Noah Rosenblatt of UrbanDigs.com reports that roughly $355 billion of subprime, alt-A, prime and Fannie/Freddie-backed loans are due to reset in 2008:
Our colleague, Dan Denning, reports that a majority of these ARMs due to reset held initial rates that ranged from 6-9%. This represents subprime territory. And the folks ...
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Tags: declining economy, European ARMs, European market, U.S. market
Posted in Housing, International |
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