CoreLogic’s data for January closed house sales (mostly November contracts) shows a year over year decline of 3.1% nationally. the month to month decline was 1%. However, the 12 month rate of decline has been slowing sharply. According to CoreLogic, 6 of the 10 largest metropolitan markets in the US showed year over year declines…
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Part 2: Hyper-Hypothecation Madness
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Part 2: Hyper-Hypothecation Madness
“A prime broker need not even require that an investor sign all agreements with a European subsidiary to take advantage of the re-hypothecation loophole. As a result of these peripheral…
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BEWARE! Paypal May Have Cash Flow Problems
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First, let me preface this by saying that I do NOT use Paypal for payment processing or subscription management. I stopped using them about 6 years ago. Their service was HORRIBLE. However, I do still have an account with them through which I occasiona…
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The Financial World has Twisted itself into a Curious Shape
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In both Europe and America the financial sector has been on the edge of disaster for the last three years. Each time a crisis flares up, the fixers rush in with a remedy. Bailouts, TARPs, TALFs, ZIRPs, QEI, QEII and now the ‘twist’.
In its lat…
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A bull market – in everything you don’t want?
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Earthquakes Everywhere?
1811-1812 New Madrid
THE BIG ONE
The three great earthquakes near New Madrid, Missouri took place 1811-1812 (December 11 (7.7), January 23 (7.5), and February 7 (7.7)). This was a very significant event and has been suggeste…
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Editorial: A jobs idea that has already failed.
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Editorial: A jobs idea that has already failed.
By Anonymous
The MetroWest Daily News
Posted Jun 23, 2011 @ 08:10 AM
Americans are desperate for jobs, and Washington is desperately in need of ideas for creating them. Republicans are consumed with re…
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Good News For Grandpa
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Death panels notwithstanding, Grandpa gets to live a little longer.
The Medicare trust fund will probably be exhausted in 2024, five years earlier than previously estimated, according to an annual report from the trustees of the Social Security and…
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The Bernank vs. The Gross, Who Surrenders? Professional Edition Fed Report
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
Some of the warning signs that I enumerated in the February 5th report (reproduced below) have abated, but others have not. Foreign central banks are back at the Treasury auctions. That has helped to prevent a collapse in the Treasury market and has helped to keep the stock market fiddling while Athens, Dublin, Cairo and…
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No Choice in the Matter- Professional Edition
by Lee Adler • • 2 Comments
The technical readings continue to show a market that remains at high risk. By many standards of the past 6 years, this market is deeply oversold, but it shows no sign of any real recovery. The market’s month long trading range, rather than indicating a bottoming process, may just be a consolidation in the middle…
