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- Schiff on CNBC Squawk Box
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I like it when CNBC drags out the bears … hey, more Fleckenstein and Roubini please! … but they only do it when the market is going down. (7 min 43 sec)
Peter Schiff was in one of my favorite videos from Dec 31, 2006 (several people making housing predictions - very funny):…
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5 July, 2008| housingblogs |
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- WOT 7-5-2008
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I enjoy looking back on some of the nonsense and denial among the bulls. I came across this one recently: Was there a Housing Bubble?
If you can’t see a housing bubble in February of 2008, you are truly blind. Here is my favorite piece of analysis, “Prices will probably drop some more but personally I don’t expect to
ever again see index values around 110 (referring to Case-Shiller). Do you? If we don’t see the
massive drop back to “normal” levels then the run up in prices should
be described as a shift to a new equilibrium - much as happened during
World War II - see the chart. (It’s an important question to ask what
changed and why?). In the shift to the new equilibrium there was some
mild overshooting, especially due to the subprime over expansion, but
fundamentally t…
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- Stealth tax
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With each passing year, more people are falling into the higher tax band. Currently, almost 4 million tax payers are regarded as high income earners. That is about one taxpayer in eight.Back in 1990, a little over one million tax payers found themselves paying the higher 40 percent tax rate. Every year since then, the threshold has trapped progressively more taxpayers. Currently, the threshold is set at just £36,000 after personal allowances. It is comfortable wage, but hardly a fortune….
Original Source: ukhousebubble.blogspot.com
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- HBB Remedies For Getting The Nation Back On Its Feet
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Readers suggested a topic on housing bubble solutions. “On this July 4 weekend - how do we declare economic independence from the housing and credit mess that some very unpatriotic business and gov’t leaders got us into? HBB remedies for getting the nation back on its feet.”
One posted, “We need a crash course in America to not only teach people to read write and speak English, (eliminate functional illiteracy) but also mandatory financial education courses to graduate high school AND college.”
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Original Source: thehousingbubbleblog.com
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- U.S. Energy Consumption as Percent of GDP
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I found this story puzzling …
From MarketWatch: S&P says energy spending has fallen to 1971 pace [A] Standard & Poor’s report said Wednesday it expects Americans to spend the same portion of their household income on energy as they did the year the Ed Sullivan Show went off the air.
S&P Chief Economist David Wyss said the ratings agency expects an average U.S. household to spend 6.7% of its…
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- Tree of the Week: the paperbark
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Good morning, it’s a clear and beautiful one in my little corner of Los Angeles. As nice a day as it is, though, there are two words that jumped out at me from today’s …
Original Source: feeds.latimes.com
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- Tree of the Week: The Paperbark Tree
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Good morning, it’s a clear and beautiful one in my little corner of Los Angeles. As nice a day it is though, there are two words that jumped out at me from today’s …
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- The Pompoms Are On The Ground In Florida
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The Palm Beach Post reports from Florida. “In a hopeful sign for the moribund condo market, the developer of a struggling downtown condominium decided not to sell 156 units in a discounted bulk sale - a decision that has West Palm Beach condo owners breathing a sigh of relief. Instead of a fire sale, Wood Partners is keeping the units at The Edge and renting them. Wood began building the 307-unit Edge during the boom but didn’t finish until the bust had set in.”
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Original Source: thehousingbubbleblog.com
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- A Little Wierdness On A Saturday Morning
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Is there a relationship between these two articles? I’m not saying- I’m just asking.
Here we have the performance of M/I Bank:Burdened with souring real estate construction and development loans in Arizona and Florida, Marshall & Ilsley Corp. said Thursday it expects to post a loss when it reports second-quarter financial results later this month….
Original Source: housingdoom.com
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- A Graph of Gas Prices Since 1919
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Remember those really, really high gas prices of the late 1970s and early 1980s? Well, we’re past that and still climbing. From the U.S. Energy Information Administration:…
Original Source: bubblemeter.blogspot.com
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5 July, 2008| housingblogs |
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- Bits Bucket For July 5, 2008
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Please post off-topic ideas, links and Craigslist finds here….
Original Source: thehousingbubbleblog.com
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