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  • Scary Foreclosure Numbers, Scarier Prospects
    Yeah, it's an adjusting process, yeah what goes up must come down. But come on, this process will be really painful -- you comments (short & aby) make it sound like a pleasant process. People losing houses, nest eggs, jobs, all of which compound each other. You guys act like it's not going to get very ugly (as if it's not already pretty ugly).
    Dec 12 09:39 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Irrational Housing Market Exuberance
    Let us not forget, people losing jobs will cause a lot more downward pressure on house prices.
    Dec 12 09:43 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Another Bloodbath?
    Wow, you guys are amazing. Can I throw money at you?
    Oct 24 08:36 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • California's House Sales Continue Strong Growth
    As Doctor Housing Bubble mentioned, isn't it a bigger deal that the median price is down 38% in the same period, and 50% of sales are foreclosures? Yet somehow, fools (or those in the real estate business) fail to mention these important details and only mention the increase in sales. I would say 2009 is optimistic, not pessimistic.
    Oct 22 09:57 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Don't Touch Anything Requiring the Use of Short-Term Lending Markets
    GEORGIA BELL, the author just said "interest rates will be moving higher," which I interpreted as higher interest rates on our savings accounts (etc.), but you are interpreting as higher interest rates on loans I take out. Is there any reason to believe savings and money market accounts will be paying higher interest rates?
    Oct 08 22:04 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Debate: McCain's Insane Mortgage Proposal
    Fabian, the obvious conundrum we are in is, raising taxes is the prudent thing to do to stop sinking into massive debt. But you seem to ignore that raising taxes typically hurts the economy, and that lowers the amount of taxable income. Yes? No?
    Oct 08 09:32 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Don't Touch Anything Requiring the Use of Short-Term Lending Markets
    I'm a simpleton compared to many of you, and I could not make sense of your assertion that interest rates will be moving higher. Why? Which interest rates? I am not able to see what will bring interest rates up in the near future (other than rates offered by desperate companies). Are you just saying interest rates will move up... some day?
    Oct 08 09:00 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Homebuilder Trends: What To Do About Inventory? [Housing Tracker]
    Mandating energy efficient building is a sign that our government can look to long term ways to deal with our energy crisis. It's sad that our housing and financial crisis are ruining any hint that our government can plan, rather than run around putting out fires.
    Oct 08 08:54 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Did Lack of Regulation Create the Subprime Mortgage Crisis?
    Freedoms Truth (I'm not sure what to make of someone who goes by such a monicker): I am no expert and no trader, but from what I see, margins and leverage seem to cause a lot of problems. I think that most of us saw the insanity of mortgages being handed out to unqualified people during a housing bubble. But you're telling us that leveraging all that bad mortgage paper wasn't as dumb as dumb can be? I'm sure a lot of you know how to do a lot with margins and leverage, but to simpletons like me, all I see is the destruction these things cause. Seems like leverage just takes reasonable market changes and distorts them into crisis after crisis. So explain why the world would be a worse place without so much margin and leverage.

    I hate how clearly by-partisan caused financial problems are used as political fodder. I'm not going to argue with your specific points (almost every politician has a closet full of skeletons), but you're blinded by ideology if you don't think our current crisis could not also be easily and factually blamed on screw-ups on the right. And your boy McCain has looked like a buffoon in his statements, actions, and 180-degree reversals during the past 10 days (I'm not talking about the debate, which seemed like a draw). I don't know how anyone could be RATIONALLY excited about either candidate right now, unless your they type to "rah rah" your party, no matter what the situation.
    Sep 29 10:48 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • False Data Clobbers the Markets
    Are all negative thoughts written off in your world, simply because they are negative?

    Plenty of oil scholars say it's during the next 5-15 years that we'll have supply problems, before other energy sources start handling a meaningful percentage of the burden. So you give no credence to those who claim depletion and refining limits are going to cause supply problems, and China and India will be wanting more and more oil?

    Are you close friends with Steve or what? How do you know the rumors of Jobs' illness are false? I'm not saying they are true, I'm saying there is a possibility they are true. I suppose no one ever dies in your world? I'd love to live there, reality is a lot less fun.
    Aug 29 10:31 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Apple Will Iron out the Wrinkles -- or the Irony
    All I know of Michael Arrington is what you write, but does he really fault a company because of problems he is having with one product? That's not much of a sample size. What if Apple makes only 1% lemons and he happens to have one? What if some software he loaded is causing the problem? I'm just saying, hope his criticism of Apple's quality is based on something more than problems with his one iPhone.
    Aug 24 10:10 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Southern California Home Sales Rise: No, That's Not a Typo
    Paris did say some smart-sounding stuff. If she's elected, hopefully shell keep her writers!

    I think the charts would have been even more informative if you said the total number of zip codes so we'd know what the raw "number of zips" meant on a percentage basis (a quick count on my part shows 150 zip codes in O.C.). So even in the rosier of the two charts, 2/3 of the zip codes experienced declines in prices.

    Hmmm, I'm still confused looking at both charts. Why are the changes in median prices so different that the changes in overall prices?

    I think a lot of buyers have been on the sidelines watching prices drop. Some waiting because homes were beyond what they could afford, and some waiting because everyone knows the market has been tanking, and few want to buy and watch their home lose a ton of value immediately after buying it. So now homes are within the reach of more people, there's talk of a bottom, and there are some foreclosure bargains. So there's finally some buying going on. But I also think there will be plenty more distressed properties added to the market, out-pacing the buying, so prices will continue to fall for awhile.
    Aug 20 10:03 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Forget $100 a Barrel - Oil Will Plummet to $30
    Jason Schwarz seems to ignore the rapidly growing (and subsidized) number of Chinese oil consumers, clearly doesn't believe in peak oil, isn't worried about world politics disrupting supply, thinks US politicians will really (finally) implement a coherent energy policy, thinks investment in exploration and alternative energy sources won't dwindle if oil were to actually come down to $30/barrel, and seems to think the US populace would continue to conserve even if the price of gas were to get relatively cheap again. Do all these assumptions sound reasonable to ANYONE? I don't think one commenter agrees with this article.

    On the same subject, oil analyst Charlie Maxwell was on Brinker's radio show over the weekend. Maxwell thinks oil will come down to 80-90 a barrel for about a year or two, then start marching back up... and up... My money is (literally) on Maxwell's prediction.
    Aug 18 09:53 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Economic Report Summary: Housing Market Getting Worse, Not Better
    Mike Mohr, your comment is that this article is stupid because four houses in your neighborhood sold? Wow, now that's a scientific analysis.

    Several articles in last weeks WSJ pointed to still higher rates of foreclosures in the coming years, which obviously puts downward pressure on housing prices. While every location will bottom at different times, and their may be flurry's of price movement between the top and the bottom, I agree that overall, the prices of homes have yet to reach their nadir.
    And to prove it to Mike, two homes on my block that have been on sale forever just lowered their prices again.
    Aug 11 09:43 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Energy Stocks Are Too Cheap to Ignore - Barron's
    Exxon sure didn't ride up with the price of oil, so will it come down if oil keeps dropping?

    finance.yahoo.com/q/bc...
    Aug 11 09:31 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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