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  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Foreclosure picture improves, well sort of. There are only 19% more this year than last and the three percent less than last month is temporary. Has any one notified Penny Smack? Not to worry though the own to rent program will keep additional inventory off the market. In other "Good news." Mortgage apps are up on the down side three fourths of them are refis. Hey Ben how are those low rates working for you? Got any new bubbles on the way for Da Boyz to play with?
    Nov 12 08:53 am |Rating: +4 0 |Link to Comment
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    Minimum wage went up but unit labor costs went down? Yea right. However the cost of a breakfast sandwich went from $2.15 to $2.63 must be all that productivity. Retail sales dropped which means consumer confidence is rising at least that's what it meant last month. Should Texas declare Guaranty Bank too big to fail and buy it?
    Aug 12 08:53 am |Rating: +6 0 |Link to Comment
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    I believe it was Margeret Thatcher who pointed out the fatal flaw there. Central planners always end up running out of other peoples money.


    On May 13 12:02 PM bbowen7 wrote:

    > Who would have believed it just a few short years ago? The government
    > takes over GMAC and uses it to finance the car companies that it
    > jointly owns with the UAW. The government puts billions more into
    > Fannie/Freddie to pay for government-supported liquidation of mortgages
    > which they encouraged. The government plans to determine the compensation
    > structure of the financial industry. And by the end of the summer
    > we will have the Pelosi/Obama plan for managing nationalized healthcare.
    >
    >
    > The Soviet model of a centrally-controlled economy worked for quite
    > awhile, but eventually collapsed from coruption and indifference.
    > For us, the arrogant belief that the government knows better than
    > individual people and companies is a bigger threat than the huge
    > debts that the Obama administration is racking up.
    May 13 14:29 pm |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment
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    With the Obama administration getting ready to cap salleries in all buisinesses how long will it be befor they start confiscating assets as well? Oh wait they are already doing that and giving the proceeds to unions. Get ready for some new break out lows.
    May 13 09:01 am |Rating: +8 -5 |Link to Comment
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