patrick.net

Even more proof the Tax Credit was bust.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-housing-market-recession-is-not-over-2010-06-09?source=patrick.net

A Chinese factory laborer makes $10 on a good day.
I have to admit I agree with you in regards to global wage arbitrage, but at the same time I was shocked to see this today:
ZHONGSHAN, China — Striking workers at a Honda auto parts plant here are demanding the right to form their own labor union, something officially forbidden in China, and are preparing for a protest march on Friday morning.

Even more proof the Tax Credit was bust.

Of course it was a bust.

So will this be, too:

http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/14712/

read it and throw up

EBGuy says

Striking workers at a Honda auto parts plant

The nut of the story:

"The workers voiced skepticism that the company would meet their demands, mainly an 89 percent increase in their pay. It is currently 900 renminbi a month, or $132, for a 42-hour week, not far above the official minimum wage. An 89 percent increase would be about 800 additional renminbi a month, or a raise of about $117."

42 hours a week sounds like 6 days x 7 hrs a day @ 73c per hour.

If they get their wage-doubling, and if the RMB doubles like it should, that's a whole $3/hr in new wages, about one tenth of what factory work in the US is based at. Toyota is actually paying $50/hr when benefits are included.

When I was waiting for my iPad to arrive from Shenzhen I googled this view of the city:

Google Map

this is a shot from just beyond the border of Hong Kong territory and China proper.

Let's see, Obama has been in office for 16+ months and foreclosures are hitting record numbers for 15 months. I'm really not saying there is a connection, but it does make one think.

RealtyTrac Reports Foreclosure Activity Over 300,000 For 15th Straight Month As REOs Set New Monthly Record
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/09/2010 23:28 -0500

Double Dip Florida Illinois Las Vegas Michigan RealtyTrac

Michael Pento's expectation of a major double dip in housing is starting to come through. RealtyTrac reported that even as foreclosure filings declined marginally, by 3% in May, to 322,920 (1% higher YoY), bank repossessions (REOs) hit a record monthly high for the second month in a row, with 93,777 properties repossessed by lenders.

A very informative site. Looks like things are not getting better, but are trending negative.

http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/10-real-estate-charts-texas-ratio-pending-homes-sales-showing-no-recovery-in-2010/?source=patrick.net

RayAmerica says

Looks like things are not getting better, but are trending negative.

Translation for all of you who don't "know" rayray: He hates all things Obama and, having driven away most of the posters on the misc forum with my rhetoric and constant personal attacks, he intends to do the same thing here.

Finally, Ms. ellie "I never, ever insult anyone" mae fesses up and tells it like it is. I think it is admirable for her to admit she's "driving everyone away" with her "rhetoric and constant personal attacks." LOL!

elliemae says

having driven away most of the posters on the misc forum with my rhetoric and constant personal attacks

robertoaribas says

Since when does the job of president include either supporting an asset classes prices (housing) or figuring out how to pay legally contracted loans for people?

Are you saying Obama's Homebuyer's Tax Credit and his Loan Modification program wasn't his "job?" LOL !!! This is way too easy.

RayAmerica says

Finally, Ms. ellie “I never, ever insult anyone” mae fesses up and tells it like it is. I think it is admirable for her to admit she’s “driving everyone away” with her “rhetoric and constant personal attacks.” LOL!
elliemae says

having driven away most of the posters on the misc forum with my rhetoric and constant personal attacks

Ya caught me in a typo, rayray. It happens from time to time. I originally posted it as coming from your point of view... but a typo doesn't change things, troll. You are offensive and rude, and have driven many people away. But I refuse to get into a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
I still think it's cute the way you like to write my name over & over, adding a little to it.

now now ellie, his post was anti-Lord Barry and you stepped up. Just to be fair, you found the action, not rayray.

RayAmerica says

Let’s see, Obama has been in office for 16+ months and foreclosures are hitting record numbers for 15 months. I’m really not saying there is a connection, but it does make one think.

nah, bap. It's anti-Obama, and anti everyone who he believes to be liberal. To be fair, rayray is a troll and it doesn't matter which forum he posts on, he will spout his inuendos.

In the same vein, though, he's never denied his culpability in the molestation scandal. He is a huge fan of Glen Beck, who may or may not have raped and killed young girls. I’m really not saying there is a connection, but it does make one think.

See how it works?

I would not say Lord Barry had a role in the loose lending that let the mess happen. I would blame liberal lending rules. Liberal, not like the political use of the word, but like -- the other way to use it. Like, opposite of strict.

yes, there was a definite loosening of lending standards sometime between 2001 and 2004.

vdare is your basic white supremacy site but I can't really object to what they wrote here:

http://www.vdare.com/sailer/080928_rove.htm

(well, I read it about a month ago so if there's something icky on that page I apologize in advance)

Mr Rove was a wonk's wonk when it came to electoral math, always looking for that 0.1% edge that would put his team 1 vote over the other guy (cf Florida and NH in 2000, LOL). IIRC home owners tend to vote (R) more than renters, so there was that impetus behind the lending liberalization this decade.

Not that this is a partisan thing. I think the Dems too would have been unable to resist the temptation to inflate a housing bubble to get out of the tech recession 2001-2003. Who can pass up a free five trillion of cold hard cash in five years?

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CMDEBT?cid=97

elliemae says

In the same vein, though, he’s never denied his culpability in the molestation scandal. He is a huge fan of Glen Beck, who may or may not have raped and killed young girls.

If this isn't an illustration of a statement of a crazy woman, what is? She's a complete, slanderous liar. I have NEVER seen "Glen Beck" due to the fact I don't even own an idiot box, i.e. TV. A complete, absolute nutcase.

RayAmerica says

She’s a complete, slanderous liar.

And yet you won't deny the charges. Hmmmmm, wonder why? I’m really not saying there is a connection, but it does make one think.

RayAmerica says

If this isn’t an illustration of a... crazy woman, what is?

This is! (You're very welcome)

elliemae says

RayAmerica says

She’s a complete, slanderous liar.

And yet you won’t deny the charges. Hmmmmm, wonder why? I’m really not saying there is a connection, but it does make one think.

It really does Make one think. and he (Beck) has never addressed this? ( hahaha)

I love throwing their own crap back at them when they doen't realize you're doing it.

NAZIS!!!!! Socialists!!! there everywhere!!!! and everything wrong now is Obamas fault!( ha ha)

He is just the President of a really broken system not the guy who broke it. well at least not yet anyways.

Danimal says

I love throwing their own crap back at them when they doen’t realize you’re doing it.

Notice how rayray says he's NEVER seen Glen Beck - (wonder why he's yelling at me - he's awful touchy about his alleged friendship with the Glenster), yet doesn't deny he's a fan? Nor will he confirm or deny his involvement in a molestation which may (or may not) have occurred.
RayAmerica says

I’m really not saying there is a connection, but it does make one think.
LOL !!! This is way too easy.

Crazy people never seem to live long. If you don't have a will ellie, you should hurry up and get one. You wouldn't want your relatives fighting over your straight jacket and the 5 cents you're worth now would you?

I really enjoy Glenn Back.

We need more American's like Glenn Beck.

RayAmerica says

Crazy people never seem to live long. If you don’t have a will ellie, you should hurry up and get one. You wouldn’t want your relatives fighting over your straight jacket and the 5 cents you’re worth now would you?

You really suck at this game, Francis.

elliemae says

having driven away most of the posters on the misc forum with my rhetoric and constant personal attacks

LOL !!!!!

We heard you the first time, Francis. The pages are beginning to stick together at this point.

elliemae says

RayAmerica says

If this isn’t an illustration of a… crazy woman, what is?

This is! (You’re very welcome)

Where did you get my picture? I want answers, young lady!

facebook "cartoon yourself" app.

lol

simchaland says

Where did you get my picture? I want answers, young lady!

Your mom. She's quite nice btw. :)

Don't I get extra credit for the "Stripes" reference, and rayray's physical exuberance?:

elliemae says

We heard you the first time, Francis. The pages are beginning to stick together at this point.

I thought it was oh, so very way clever of me.

Danimal says

He is just the President of a really broken system not the guy who broke it. well at least not yet anyways.

As Mitt Romny as put it...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2010-06-10-column10_ST_N.htm

Has it come to this again? The president is meeting with his oil spill experts, he crudely tells us, so that he knows "whose ass to kick." We have become accustomed to his management style — target a scapegoat, assign blame and go on the attack. To win health care legislation, he vilified insurance executives; to escape bankruptcy law for General Motors, he demonized senior lenders; to take the focus from the excesses of government, he castigated business meetings in Las Vegas; and to deflect responsibility for the deepening and lengthening downturn, he blames Wall Street and George W. Bush. But what may make good politics does not make good leadership. And when a crisis is upon us, America wants a leader, not a politician.

Leave it up to ellie "I never, ever insult anyone" mae to change the discussion from a serious, adult topic into a childish rant. She does this on every thread. At least she's willing to admit:

elliemae says

having driven away most of the posters on the misc forum with my rhetoric and constant personal attacks

thomas.wong1986 says

The president is meeting with his oil spill experts

I think you're being a little harsh on the President. He is on his way to the Golf Coast, sorry, I meant to say GULF Coast this very minute.

When will residential real estate hit bottom?

When the fraud by REA and their fictitious fake multiple offers are exposed and real reform is imposed on the RE industry. Then you will have a real bottom in real estate.

RayAmerica says

I think you’re being a little harsh on the President. He is on his way to the Golf Coast, sorry, I meant to say GULF Coast this very minute

The outcome of his trip is already known. Chicago style politics at work once again.

thomas.wong1986 says

When will residential real estate hit bottom?
When the fraud by REA and their fictitious fake multiple offers are exposed and real reform is imposed on the RE industry. Then you will have a real bottom in real estate.

yep

RayAmerica says

Leave it up to ellie “I never, ever insult anyone” mae to change the discussion from a serious, adult topic into a childish rant. She does this on every thread. At least she’s willing to admit:
elliemae says

having driven away most of the posters on the misc forum with my rhetoric and constant personal attacks

Still masturbating to a typo, rayray?

Ever notice that ellie "I never, ever insult anyone" mae NEVER addresses any issue in detail? To people like her, issues do not matter. The only thing that’s important is they have a venue for their childish little games. I think Patrick should limit this site to adults. Children like ellie really don’t belong here.

This article makes a pretty convincing case that housing has another 10 years to go before it recovers:

http://www.mybudget360.com/lost-decade-housing-real-estate-2010-to-2020-higher-mortgage-rates-baby-boomers-retiring/?source=patrick.net

Zlxr says

We can build sea walls - but where will the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers drain too?

We have already seen several times the rivers flood the central valley. No new news there.
And it will happen again long before the end of the century.

There has been enough disasters the last decade that America could have capitalized on, like we did in the Bush Sr. and Clinton administration. Because the Government wasn't in the business of gaining control of the situation while doing nothing to alleviate the problem. And any and all rebuild efforts have been closed government contracts to Lobby and special interest Friends of the Fourth Reich, gets to make all the profits for them selves. And the goods and materials are imported from other countries.

The Midwest Flood and Andrew did more the economy and "Main Street" than president has done in over 60 years. All of the Wood mills, and various building and construction materials and tools manufacturing were booming from coast to coast, which employed the service sector and the not to mention the actual Construction sector. Everybody that wanted a job had one for that reason.

Bush and Obama's administration has allowed corporate and foreign as well as in Carl Roves case capitalize on all diversity and disasters. While keeping the citizens of Burbdale on a broke short leash. People that need a job can't get one for that reason.

What does this have to do with the bottom?

If you need to ask, you wont know the bottom if it bit you in the arse.

I don't think America would have missed a beat, if People descended on New Orleans to rebuild it like they did for Miami after Hurricane Andrew.
Nor do I think "Americans" would have been so stupid to put all of their Eggs, in the "House Flipping To Riches" basket.
That "WAS" the only game in town, people like to call "A time of Plenty".

That's like eating your own flesh, and calling a time of plenty.

Perhaps that's why Katrina was handled like it was. Buy now or be priced out for ever, would have been a hard sale, with 4 million Americans with hammers and saws in their hands.

I'm thinking at this point, the cheaper houses get, then the harder it will be for Commoners to buy them.
I had to crawl through barbed wire and cross mine fields to get my FHA loan. I'm glad I bought when I did.

And I hope the value falls another 10-20% "For now", so I can do about 50K in sweat equity renovations, with out bumping up my Tax roll, more than I'm paying now.

Now's not only the time to buy, but now's the time to Renovate, don't wait for a Market turn around, Cities will call that 50K in sweat equity 100K in improvements.
But while prices are inherently falling, 50K in renovations, adds Jack Squat to the assessed value, no matter how desperately you tried to make it so. You might get back 60% of your time and money you put into those renovations and additions, if anything.

So even though I'll be doing major improvements, my tax bill will actually be going down, every time I petition my assessed value, to reflect the market value.

So in ten, or fifteen years, when comparable houses in my neighborhood are going for 250-300K, not even 350-500K they were fetching, in '07. I'll be paying taxes on 110K.

Make no mistake we are going to over correct hard, don't time it, or you'll miss out on great opportunities. But do take advantage of those falling values, even after you buy.
Falling values aren't only great for buyers, it's great for owners that aren't hung up on what values are today, and are looking more at a long term values. And just generally want a nice place to live in, with out pulling your hair out following the stupidity in politics going on with RE and the Mortgage industry right now.
Sanity has got to be worth something.