Housing Completions will set new record low in 2010
Calculated Risk   CalculatedRisk   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 40.2
One of the key questions for housing, jobs, and the economy is: When will the excess housing supply be absorbed? The answers depends on: 1) The current number of excess housing units, 2) how many net...
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Rail Traffic increases 5.7% in August compared to August 2009
Calculated Risk   CalculatedRisk   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 40.2
From the Association of American Railroads: Rail Time Indicators. The AAR reports traffic in August 2010 was up 5.7% compared to August 2009 - and traffic was 11.6% lower than in August 2008. However...
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Housing’s cure? Higher mortgage rates!
Lansner on Real Estate   Jon Lansner   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 1.4
Why aren’t rock-bottom mortgage rates helping the local housing market more than one would think? Because history suggests that cheaper home loans offer little more than a coin-toss chance of being...
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Demand for O.C. homes plunges 27%
Lansner on Real Estate   Jon Lansner   •  3 days ago  •   rank: 1.4
The latest Orange County home inventory report from Steve Thomas Altera Real Estate as of September 2 says … After starting off the year with decent demand, we quickly realized that it was...
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Business Blog Rankings: Trumped by Krugman & Sorkin!
The Big Picture   Barry Ritholtz   •  5 days ago  •   rank: 0.9
Monthly Business Blog Rankings from Wikio Top 20 Business Blogs, according to Wikio, which uses a weighted link based ranking system (see methodology here) 1 The Conscience of a Liberal 2 DealBook – ...
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O.C. mortgages up 28% in 2010
Lansner on Real Estate   Jeff Collins   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.8
Click to enlarge Loans to homebuyers are picking up again this year, and Orange County had the greatest share of Southern California’s home-loan gains, according to a recent real estate report....
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NFP Day: -54,000
The Big Picture   Barry Ritholtz   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.6
We are looking forward to a possible cooling of Employment in August — slower economic growth, weaker auto sales, softer than hoped for back-to-school retail season. Consensus is for a private...
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What Are the Limits of Sapient Judgment?
The Big Picture   Guest Author   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.5
George Mobus teaches computer science to undergraduate and graduate students at the Institute of Technology, Computing & Software Systems at the University of Washington, Tacoma. His background is...
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Who’s Got The Gold / Who’s Mining It ?
The Big Picture   Barry Ritholtz   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.4
Ever wonder which countries have the biggest gold reserves? Which countries produced the most gold? Now, via Money Hacker, you know exactly who and how much: > click for ginormous oversized...
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Who’d build luxury apartments in Long Beach?
Lansner on Real Estate   Jeff Collins   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.3
Frank T. Suryan Jr. is chairman and CEO of Lyon Communities, which operates more than 11,000  apartments California, Colorado, Georgia and Florida (click on images above for a sampling of their...
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Yahoo Tech Ticker Appearances
The Big Picture   Barry Ritholtz   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.3
I did a few Yahoo Tech Ticker videos with Henry Blodget on Wednesday (9/1/10), Readers have asked to be updated when these appear, so — you can see the vids here: • Bear Days of August Might be...
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Diane Keaton family homes sell @ $6.5 mill
Lansner on Real Estate   Marilyn Kalfus, real    •  4 days ago  •   rank: 0.3
CLICK ON PHOTO TO ENLARGE The Corona del Mar home of Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton’s late mother Dorothy Keaton Hall has sold, along with a house  next door, for a total of $6,500,000.  . It ...
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Mid-county homebuying plummets 27%
Lansner on Real Estate   Jon Lansner   •  5 days ago  •   rank: 0.2
For the 22 business days ending July 15 – freshest numbers from DataQuick — our region-by-region analysis of homebuying shows Orange County slices up geographically speaking this way …...
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Really? Home price indices to plunge
Lansner on Real Estate   Jon Lansner   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.2
Real estate news and views from around the globe that make you go, “Really?” Bullfax.com: “Both the Case-Shiller 10 & 20 city Home Price Indices rose 1% in June. It should be remembered that the ...
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Dear Steve Jobs: Stop jerking everyone around with a goofy set-top box.
BloodhoundBlog   Greg Swann   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.2
iOS 4 can go there, no doubt. And the lame-ass “web-enabled” HD-TVs shipping now are no competition for what Apple can do. The iPad may be the actual future of video content, but there will be...
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Did U.S. seizure of mortgage giants make sense?
Lansner on Real Estate   Jon Lansner   •  4 days ago  •   rank: 0.1
Here’s a look at news and reports that will shape the housing discussion this coming week: Monday: Enjoy your Labor Day! Tuesday: 2-year anniversary of federal takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae ...
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Update – Adapting To a New Reality – Some Results
BloodhoundBlog   Jeff Brown   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.1
To some in real estate brokerage, hearing the ‘R’ word — that would be results, causes them the same stress as my son’s mom felt the first time she read his lips on the mound, and didn’t...
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Bear Days of August Might be Over
The Big Picture   Barry Ritholtz   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.1
> Source: Bear Days of August Might be Over, Says Barry Ritholtz Stacy Curtin Yahoo Tech Ticker Sep 02, 2010...
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The First-Time Goldbuyer Tax Credit and Goldie-Mick
Paper Economy - A US Real    SoldAtTheTop   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.1
The Keynesian policy junkies are out in force, all strung out and exhausted from retching and withdrawal, but like an OxyContin psychotic storming drugstores desperately looking for his next fix, they ...
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Have a great Labor Day weekend!
BloodhoundBlog   Tom Johnson   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.1
Let’s stay away from the #RTB(tab) crowd as industry lifeguard comparison, shall we? Have a safe and relaxing weekend. h/t Phil Martin...
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