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- Is There a Problem Looming with FHA Loans?
- Tom Lindmark submits: This is a chart click to enlarge that HousingWire published a couple of days ago. It’s generally interesting but I’d like to focus in on one particular issue. click to enlarge by Tom Lindmark
- External links 2009-06-28
- Firms Accelerate Refinancings, Convey Fragility of Recent Credit Recovery
- Tom Lindmark submits: Sometimes it pays to ignore the blizzard of economic numbers that the government spews out and just pay attention to what business has to say about how business is going. On that score, in the last few days we’ve had Warren Buffett, [[GE]] and FedEx FDX all...
- External links 2009-06-26
- The Assault on Ethical Home Appraisals, Part Deux
- Tom Lindmark submits: I’m shocked (note, sarcasm intended) that my prior post on the assault on the appraisal process didn’t deter the realtors. It also appears that Diana Olick is setting herself up as their chief flack. Here’s what she had to say yesterday. ...
- External links 2009-06-25
- Why Housing Storm May Not Be Over
- Tom Lindmark submits: I was all set to write an upbeat post about how a story in the WSJ was another indication that the housing market was slowly getting better when an article in the Arizona Republic stopped me dead in my tracks. Let me explain. First, the WSJ article...
- External links 2009-06-24
- The Assault on Ethical Home Appraisals
- Tom Lindmark submits: I’ve already written about the putsch to overthrow the new appraisal rules and probably should leave it at that. However, Diana Olick and the NAR are beating the drums loudly for repeal and Olick’s blog post is just too over the top to let it pass without...
- External links 2009-06-24
- NAR on Existing Home Sales and Low Ball Appraisals
- Tom Lindmark submits: The National Association of Realtors is out with their monthly report. Overall sales rose but less than expected. Their take on things was upbeat. Here are the details: by Tom Lindmark
- External links 2009-06-23
- Weekend Bank Failures: Georgia is the Chernobyl of Community Banking
- Tom Lindmark submits: Another hat trick for the FDIC. Three banks bite the dust. Here are the links: First National Bank of Anthony - Anthony, Kansas by Tom Lindmark
- External links 2009-06-21
- A Couple of Bearish Views for the Dollar
- Tom Lindmark submits: Two grim assessments for the future of the dollar. The first is from James Pethokoukis at Reuters(if you aren’t reading this guy’s posts then start to do so): by Tom Lindmark
- External links 2009-06-15
- Foreclosures Getting Out of Control
- Tom Lindmark submits: There has been enough talk about an impending next wave of foreclosures to suggest that indeed it’s going to happen. An article in the LA Times throws a little more information into the mix. Just as the nation’s housing market has begun showing signs of...
- External links 2009-07-05
- More Whining About the Dollar
- Tom Lindmark submits: Another country has been heard from on the subject of dollar dominance. India has joined Russia and China in pressing for reforms to the world’s financial system. From Bloomberg: by Tom Lindmark
- External links 2009-07-05
- Updated Case-Shiller 100 Year Real Estate Chart
- Tom Lindmark submits: I’ve posted this chart before and it continues to fascinate me. This time The Big Picture has updated it to show what a decline to “fair value” might mean for prices. You might and probably could quibble with where prices end up but there is a fair...
- External links 2009-07-05
- Environment Legislation: Where's Obama's Anti-Protectionism Stance?
- Tom Lindmark submits: It’s certainly not going to shock you to learn that the House version of the cap-and -trade global warming legislation contains a surprise. Remember it’s 1200 pages long and precious few have read it in its entirety. The NYT notes that there is an explosive...
- External links 2009-06-29
- A Case for Hedging With Gold Against Inflation or Deflation
- Tom Lindmark submits: An interesting analysis of the prospects for gold from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard this week. Along the way to his conclusion he does a nice job of stating the cases for inflation and deflation. He starts out by noting that the Chinese have substituted gold for some of the...
- External links 2009-05-25
- Housing on Fire - Can Someone Please Explain?
- Tom Lindmark submits: Does this mean the housing market has bottomed, the recession is over, we’re reverting to the status quo ante and there will be no “new” normal. The New York Times has an article today Sunday on the real estate frenzy that, were it not...
- External links 2009-05-24
- The Russians Want Fewer Dollars - So They Say
- Tom Lindmark submits: You know it’s something of a slow news day when pundits start getting their undies in a bunch about the Russians diversifying out of dollars. Really, they’ve been beating this dead horse for several weeks and it’s getting tiresome. Here is the meat of the...
- External links 2009-06-10
- Sunstone Hotel Investors: Classic Case of Buying at the Top and Ignoring Fundamentals
- Tom Lindmark submits: This is a minor story about the foreclosure of a hotel in San Diego but it says a lot about the state of commercial real estate right now. Sunstone Hotel Investors, LLC SO, a publicly held California REIT has said it will surrender its ownership...
- External links 2009-06-08
- Private Equity Acquiring Failed Banks Is A Bad Idea
- Tom Lindmark submits: As two articles this week make clear, my Quixotic crusade to stem the tide of private equity into the banking industry is coming a cropper. I wrote a couple of posts over the last few weeks here and here decrying the cave-in to the PE...
- External links 2009-06-07
- Some Want More Government in Housing
- Tom Lindmark submits: Apparently there is something addictive in the milk dispensed from the federal teat. That’s the only explanation I can come up with for three supposedly private enterprise sorts of organizations arguing in favor of continued and ,yes, even more federal support for Fannie FNM and Freddie FRE....
- External links 2009-06-03
- Europe Is Recovering More Quickly than U.S. - Why?
- Tom Lindmark submits: The somewhat shocking news that Europe and particularly those two mixed-economy giants, France and Germany, appear to be emerging from their recession more swiftly than we are, has some free market types asking some atypical questions. by Tom Lindmark
- External links 2009-08-14
- Bottled Water and Other Casualties of the Recession
- Tom Lindmark submits: It looks like the bottled water industry is one of the casualties of the recession. From the WSJ: by Tom Lindmark
- External links 2009-08-12
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