jojo's threads
Is it time for the bears?
by
jojo
on 27 Mar 2014
4 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.business-standard.c How should one measure monetary conditions? Which measures have some predictive power vis-a vis equities? BCA has done some research on this topic and has come up with ...
Southern California Has Aging Issues
by
jojo
on 24 Mar 2014
8 comments, latest
11 years ago
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Los Angeles and San Francisco - houses are overvalued by around 16%
by
jojo
on 24 Mar 2014
12 comments, latest
11 years ago
US house prices Realty check Feb 27th 2014, 14:16 by Economist.com Our interactive guide to America’s housing market TWO years after house prices ended their precipitous fall, housing across ...
What happened to the traditional home buyer?
by
jojo
on 27 Mar 2014
10 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.doctorhousingbubble It is surprising that somehow people believe that prices can simply go up untethered to actual incomes especially in an environment that looks to have higher future interest ...
Uganda
by
jojo
on 28 Feb 2014
9 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.csmonitor.com/World A Ugandan newspaper seller reads a copy of the "Daily Monitor" in Kampala Tuesday. The "Red Pepper" tabloid published a list of what it called the country's "200 ...
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by
jojo
on 31 Mar 2014
3 comments, latest
11 years ago
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Retirement Crisis a 'Looming Catastrophe' for Boomers
by
jojo
on 31 Mar 2014
Posted 11 years ago
Fidelity executive says inadequate savings could hurt citizens, economy and even national security. http://money.usnews.com/money/ Ronald P. O'Hanley is president of asset management and corporate services for Fidelity Investments, the ...
Bankrupting America - Top 5 Things To Know About Social Security & Medicare...
by
jojo
on 28 Mar 2014
31 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.bankruptingamerica. June 5, 2013 Last week the Social Security and Medicare trustees released their annual report on the state of the two programs’ finances. Even though the reports – ...
Time for boomers to sell and move on?
by
jojo
on 26 Mar 2014
28 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.cnbc.com/id/1014876 Retirement planning: Preparing for life's biggest surprises Tuesday, 25 Mar 2014 | 10:40 AM ET How can you make sure you're financially prepared for one of life's biggest ...
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by
jojo
on 26 Mar 2014
16 comments, latest
11 years ago
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by
jojo
on 27 Mar 2014
5 comments, latest
11 years ago
Shadow Government Statistics - Consumer Price Index
by
jojo
on 27 Mar 2014
Posted 11 years ago
http://www.shadowstats.com/art Payments to Social Security Recipients Should be Double Current Levels Inflation, as reported by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is understated by roughly 7% per year. This is ...
The Greatest Retirement Crisis In American History
by
jojo
on 26 Mar 2014
5 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ed We are on the precipice of the greatest retirement crisis in the history of the world. In the decades to come, we will witness millions of elderly Americans, ...
Home Sales Plunge Most In 3 Years, Drop 8th Months In A Row
by
jojo
on 27 Mar 2014
9 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ Head to NoVa. $650k homes are flying off the shelves with multiple offers in less than 3 days on the market. Shit is nuts. Sold my hovel last ...
HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS AND WORKER CONTRIBUTIONS
by
jojo
on 26 Mar 2014
2 comments, latest
11 years ago
In 2013, the average annual premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance are $5,884 for single coverage and $16,351 for family coverage. The single premium is 5% higher and the family ...
North Korea mandates Kim Jong-un haircut for all men: report
by
jojo
on 26 Mar 2014
5 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.washingtontimes.com North Korean state TV launched a five part series entitled “Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle.†The show sent out teams with hidden cameras ...
New House Sales Turn Negative Year-Over-Year, First Time Since 2011
by
jojo
on 25 Mar 2014
4 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.c Mar 25 2014, 10:56AM After rising by a revised 3.2 percent January, New Home Sales fell 3.3 percent in February according to data released today by The Census ...
2014 Interest-Rate Outlook
by
jojo
on 25 Mar 2014
3 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.kiplinger.com/artic the return on ten-year Treasuries has climbed more than one-half percentage point over the past 12 months, to 2.7%, and Kiplinger’s expects yields to reach 3.5% by the ...
"SELL now or be priced IN forever!"
by
jojo
on 25 Mar 2014
3 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://online.wsj.com/article/ Pace of Home Price Gains Slow According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices NEW YORK, March 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Data through January 2014, released today by S&P ...
The Stunning History Of "All Cash" Home Purchases In The US
by
jojo
on 21 Mar 2014
3 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ ...Finally, due to the very thin marginal source of bidside interest (flipper flipping to flipper and so on), it means that most of America has not participated in ...
Baby boomers value real estate much higher than their offspring
by
jojo
on 23 Mar 2014
1 comment, latest
11 years ago
http://www.doctorhousingbubble Many baby boomers are also seeing their offspring coming back home with student loan debt that already rivals that of a mortgage in other parts of the country. ...
Housing Market Setting Up for Another Crash
by
jojo
on 20 Mar 2014
6 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/ By EconMatters, December 25, 2013, 12:13:30 AM EDT AAA All that Glitters, is not Gold The housing market appears to be in better shape than it really is ...
Chinese selling their offshore real estate now
by
jojo
on 19 Mar 2014
15 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ One of the primary drivers of the real estate bubble in the past several years, particularly in the ultra-luxury segment, were megawealthy Chinese buyers, seeking to park their ...
Manhattan Apartment Rents Decline
by
jojo
on 13 Mar 2014
18 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ It was the sixth straight decline. The vacancy rate rose to 1.87 percent from 1.69 percent, while owner concessions also climbed. Manhattan landlords have retreated after 23 months ...
The baby boomers forgot about their kids: Do we have any housing bulls...
by
jojo
on 19 Mar 2014
12 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.doctorhousingbubble Tuesdays. What about the kids? Many boomers in high priced California cities find themselves house rich but cash poor. The notion that somehow your home valued at $700,000 ...
Why is the Fed Pushing Interest Rates Higher?
by
jojo
on 20 Mar 2014
Posted 11 years ago
http://therealnews.com/t2/inde Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) and Professor of Economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. He has published widely on a variety of progressive economic ...
Fed affects banks, rates, prices and jobs
by
jojo
on 19 Mar 2014
Posted 11 years ago
http://www.bankrate.com/financ When the Federal Open Market Committee meets to set the federal funds rate, the decision has far-reaching effects on almost every aspect of your personal finances and household ...
Corporate Bond Spread at Narrowest Since 2007 Before Jobs Data
by
jojo
on 19 Mar 2014
Posted 11 years ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ The extra yield investors demand to hold corporate bonds over Treasuries was the narrowest in six years before a government report this week economists said will show the ...
Edward Snowden - TED talks
by
jojo
on 19 Mar 2014
1 comment, latest
11 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/embed/y Auto Auto ($video_quality) Speed Normal Annotations Captions look like this Captions Audio track OFF ON Options Play on Copy video URL Copy video URL at current time Copy ...
scary 1920s vs 2000s overlay chart debunked
by
jojo
on 17 Mar 2014
1 comment, latest
11 years ago
http://www.bloombergview.com/a A portion of the financial internet spent a portion of yesterday discussing a pretty silly chart showing that the performance of the Dow from 2012 through now has ...
Your Job Taught to Machines Puts Half U.S. Work at Risk
by
jojo
on 17 Mar 2014
2 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/ne Who needs an army of lawyers when you have a computer? When Minneapolis attorney William Greene faced the task of combing through 1.3 million electronic documents in a ...
Fitch Warns Of Housing Bubble, Says Houses Overvalued
by
jojo
on 12 Mar 2014
26 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ Since the peak in early 2007, risk has been declining for newly originated loans as the bubble unwound and prices reverted towards historic averages. On the back of ...
Read this if you want to know why medical bills are so expensive
by
jojo
on 26 Feb 2014
11 comments, latest
11 years ago
Time Magazine - Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us How outrageous pricing and egregious profits are destroying our health care http://content.time.com/time/m Full article: http://livingwithmcl.com/Bitte This is a ...
Social Security is slipping closer to insolvency
by
jojo
on 14 Mar 2014
7 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://articles.latimes.com/20 Timothy F. Geithner, U.S. Treasury secretary and a trustee of the Social… (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg ) WASHINGTON The nation's Social Security and Medicare programs are sliding closer ...
Status Of The Social Security And Medicare Programs
by
jojo
on 14 Mar 2014
1 comment, latest
11 years ago
http://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/ Each year the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds report on the current and projected financial status of the two programs. This message summarizes the ...
Killing The "We Paid Our Taxes; We Earned Our Benefits" Social Security Ponzi
by
jojo
on 13 Mar 2014
26 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ It is that belief among senior citizens that President Obama was pandering to when, in his second inaugural address, he claimed that those programs strengthen us. They do ...
Did You Really Pay For Your Medicare Benefits?
by
jojo
on 13 Mar 2014
2 comments, latest
11 years ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ma American who had built up a successful enterprise, you didnt build that. An even greater backlash awaits any politician who dares to tell Medicare recipients, You didnt pay ...
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