Heraclitusstudent

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Making your voice heard - action required
by Heraclitusstudent on 6 Mar 2014   1 comment, latest 12 years ago
- "Potential first-time buyers weren't able to take advantage of the high point in affordability [...]So the wealth effect of the recovery hasn't gone to what could have been ...
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Living in a bubble
by Heraclitusstudent on 19 Feb 2014   1 comment, latest 12 years ago
Interesting report on China's housing bubble. It all looks very familiar. - people becoming mortgage slaves and paying every cents they make to the bank - people living far ...
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Of the stupidity of keynesian policies...
by Heraclitusstudent on 4 Feb 2014   95 comments, latest 12 years ago
... And let me start by saying, by Keynesianism, I mean the current use of economic stimulus in the US and Japan for example. So in 2006 people in ...
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Texter shot dead in theater
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Jan 2014   88 comments, latest 12 years ago
http://news.yahoo.com/man-71-k "The police report said Reeves fired one shot from his .380 caliber semiautomatic handgun after the two men exchanged words over Oulson's use of his smartphone shortly before ...
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Locations Where Housing Is Hot
by Heraclitusstudent on 8 Jan 2014   Posted 12 years ago
Watch investor explain how he is buying to hold for 3-5 years "until the consumer comes back" and then sell, and how he thinks millennials will come out of ...
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Kim Jong Un fed his uncle to 120 starving dogs
by Heraclitusstudent on 3 Jan 2014   6 comments, latest 12 years ago
Worse than 120 greedy realtors? http://news.yahoo.com/kim-jong #housing
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Housing Recovery May Be Running Out of Steam
by Heraclitusstudent on 24 Dec 2013   4 comments, latest 12 years ago
More for the bears... http://dealbook.nytimes.com/20 #housing
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2024 economic prediction thread
by Heraclitusstudent on 6 Dec 2013   1 comment, latest 12 years ago
I won't make a 2014 prediction (that would be just a trend projection) but that is my 2024 most positive scenario: - there will not be a further severe ...
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Mortgages applications down, inventory up, yoy
by Heraclitusstudent on 23 Oct 2013   24 comments, latest 12 years ago
"The 4-week average of the purchase index has fallen since early May, and the 4-week average of the purchase index is now down 4% from a year ago." "Inventory ...
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Republicans are against the rule of the majority
by Heraclitusstudent on 7 Oct 2013   Posted 12 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10 #politics
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Next is the debt ceiling...
by Heraclitusstudent on 1 Oct 2013   Posted 12 years ago
And clearly they are not busy negotiating. It looks certainly possible tea party anarchists will push for a default. http://www.economist.com/blogs > Countries default not when they can't pay, but ...
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The fed cannot taper
by Heraclitusstudent on 18 Sep 2013   4 comments, latest 12 years ago
It's not true that the economy is about to take off. Lending is not growing. The QE money is stuck in banks. And the government shrunk its deficit. In ...
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Apple new iphones with fingerprints tech
by Heraclitusstudent on 10 Sep 2013   Posted 12 years ago
http://news.yahoo.com/apple-in "The company said fingerprints will not be stored on its servers." On NSA servers maybe?
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Waning investor demand opens door for first-time buyers
by Heraclitusstudent on 6 Sep 2013   6 comments, latest 12 years ago
http://news.yahoo.com/analysis By Margaret Chadbourn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wall Street's billion-dollar bargain hunt for homes in depressed markets across the United States appears to have plateaued, potentially helping to cool ...
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Home ownership: how the property dream turned into a nightmare
by Heraclitusstudent on 23 Aug 2013   Posted 12 years ago
http://www.theguardian.com/boo "Now consider the price. In a market such as this, the buyer with the largest wallet wins the house and sets the price. At one time that would ...
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Bubbles Bloom Anew in Desert
by Heraclitusstudent on 20 Aug 2013   2 comments, latest 12 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ RealtyTrac. The markets where you see wild swings in prices are destination spots, warm places where people want to vacation, like Las Vegas and Phoenix, Blomquist said. The ...
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Man Beats Bank At Its Own Game With Fine Prints
by Heraclitusstudent on 9 Aug 2013   Posted 12 years ago
http://consumerist.com/2013/08 When it comes to fine print on user agreements and terms of service, I’ve found that there are those who blame companies for making these documents so long ...
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President urges bigger private role in housing market
by Heraclitusstudent on 6 Aug 2013   1 comment, latest 12 years ago
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-to I'm guessing a lot of republicans will go with him. Next is the mortgage interest deduction. #housing
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Boomers most likely to buy a new car
by Heraclitusstudent on 5 Aug 2013   54 comments, latest 12 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ The 55-to-64-year-old age group, the oldest of the boomers, has become the cohort most likely to buy a new car... The whole economy is build around the savingless ...
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People in SV should move to Florida
by Heraclitusstudent on 1 Aug 2013   Posted 12 years ago
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/3 Fla. Out on the alphabet streets in this once-thriving Florida community, the houses are dotted with black mold. Some have buckled roofs. Others are hollowed out by fire, ...
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Silicon Valley is an engineer farm
by Heraclitusstudent on 31 Jul 2013   5 comments, latest 12 years ago
Young engineers come there full of dreams and ready to spend nights coding. They get a relatively good salary for the efforts, but are quickly parked in cheap apartments ...
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2.4 Millions Missing Households
by Heraclitusstudent on 25 Jul 2013   48 comments, latest 12 years ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tr > It will take lower housing prices or lower rents. They are priced out and will remain so jobs or not. #housing
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Regulators giving-up 'skin-in-the-game' mortgage rules
by Heraclitusstudent on 25 Jul 2013   4 comments, latest 12 years ago
Not only 5 years later that rule is still not implemented, but now they are giving up any remaining pretense of willingness to regulate MBS, or anything else financial ...
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Bernanke punctures nascent bubble
by Heraclitusstudent on 17 Jul 2013   Posted 12 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ His talk of tapering put a big break on the inflating bubble. And that means... the recovery will continue to be slow and he will actually not withdraw ...
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Rise of the squatting class
by Heraclitusstudent on 12 Jul 2013   24 comments, latest 13 years ago
http://www.fCeSDZmA1s0 As Banks Sitting on Abandon Properties... They can dumpster dive too and live like rats in the margins of a broken system.
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Home Loans for Millennials
by Heraclitusstudent on 14 Jun 2013   Posted 13 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06 > ----------- I guess they don't have unrealistic expectations of what they can afford, in the sense that what they can afford will eventually define the prices in ...
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Challenge To Dogma On Owning A Home
by Heraclitusstudent on 9 May 2013   6 comments, latest 13 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05 “We find that a high rate of homeownership slowly decimates the labor market,” Professor Oswald said. Oops...
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