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Losses and Zombie Debt in Residential Mortgages Surpass $5 Trillion by Michael David White
Mortgage debt of $5.6 trillion is a bubble legacy and the most obvious source of a renewal of the financial crisis.The application of bubble logic has been defiantly resisted by all quarters in contemplation of residential mortgage debt. High loss projections by masters of doom, Nouriel Roubini... More »
November 26, 2009 • DMM, FNM, FRE
Case-Shiller Still Predicts Massive 45% Fall From Today’s Values by Michael David White
The 10 major cities in the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index have risen 5% from their April low, but the index is still predicting a massive 45% fall from today’s values.Tuesday's new number from the index showed a gain of just under .5% for the month of September,... More »
November 25, 2009 • DMM, FNM, FRE
Single Family Homes Remain Oversupplied by 900,000 Units by Michael David White
Inventory of single-family homes fell 136,000 units in October, but they remain oversupplied by 913,000 units when compared to the long-run average. The total of existing units for sale equals 3.57 million, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) in its release yesterday of... More »
November 24, 2009 • DMM, FNM, FRE
Delinquent Mortgages Equal to Three Times A Balanced For-Sale Inventory by Michael David White
A Flood Will Humble TheeEight million homes with delinquent mortgages represent a staggering 300% of the normal supply of existing homes for sale. With 3.63 million units now on the market, one million above the long-term average, an inundation of foreclosures represents a fatal death blow... More »
November 20, 2009 • DMM, FNM, FRE
Surviving The Recession of 2010 by Nicholas Cavallaro
Surviving The Recession Of 2010November 16, 2009(This is a follow-up article to The Next Recession)Whether or not the US has emerged from the The Great Recession of 2008-2009 is not of much interest to me since The Next Recession of 2010 appears similarly fearful. The economic doom and gloom of... More »
November 16, 2009 • PM, SDS, GLD
Values Have Dropped Less Than 25% of the Fall Required To Reach Trend by Michael David White
PRICE TRENDS / WAR OF THE WORLDS (Part 4): Property owners nationwide have lost only one dollar for every four dollars they can ultimately expect to lose on their home. The good news according to the leading data series issued by the United States government is that prices have only fallen 6... More »
November 11, 2009 • DMM, FNM, FRE
Conservative Property Index Predicts We Are Less Than Half Way Through Fall by Michael David White
Price Trends / The most conservative price data on residential properties predicts that values have fallen from the peak less than half of the way towards their long-term trend. The total projected fall from Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) data shows a peak-to-trend fall of... More »
November 8, 2009 • DMM, FNM, FRE
Today's Articles on Consumer Spending Part II by ETFdesk.com
Another day, more news that consumers will struggle to lift the US economyWait Until 2017 Before Job Market Recovers, Report Says ( www.etfdesk.com/headline.aspx?hId=1194 )In a depressing new report, two Rutgers professors predict that it will take more than seven years to restore the... More »
September 30, 2009 • ITB, IYR, XHB
Is There A Bad Bet With The MacroShares Housing ETP’s? (UMM, DMM) by ETF Daily News
The MacroShares Major Metro Housing exchange-traded products which were launched in June of 2009, let you bet 3X (UMM) the movement of the Case-Shiller index of home prices in ten major U.S. cities or 3X (DMM) the inverse of the index’s... More »
August 30, 2009 • UMM, DMM, URE
A Bottom In Housing Has Investor’s Buying Up Real Estate ETF’s by ETF Daily News
Real Estate has been one of the best investments for decades, until the real estate bubble burst. The crash in real estate has tightened lending and put a damper on new home sales which in turn increased inventory. The government’s stimulus is propping the industry once... More »
August 28, 2009 • XHB, ITB, UMM

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Losses and Zombie Debt in Residential Mortgages Surpass $5 Trillion by Michael David White

Case-Shiller Still Predicts Massive 45% Fall From Today’s Values by Michael David White

Single Family Homes Remain Oversupplied by 900,000 Units by Michael David White

Delinquent Mortgages Equal to Three Times A Balanced For-Sale Inventory by Michael David White

Surviving The Recession of 2010 by Nicholas Cavallaro

Values Have Dropped Less Than 25% of the Fall Required To Reach Trend by Michael David White

Conservative Property Index Predicts We Are Less Than Half Way Through Fall by Michael David White

Today's Articles on Consumer Spending Part II by ETFdesk.com

Is There A Bad Bet With The MacroShares Housing ETP’s? (UMM, DMM) by ETF Daily News

A Bottom In Housing Has Investor’s Buying Up Real Estate ETF’s by ETF Daily News

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