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    • Mortgages: Loan Officers Slamming the Barn Door [view article]
      As long as underwriting involves anything called 'no doc', banks are going to have problems. The beauty is that they deserve their fate. Ahhh...I love the smell of economic justice in the morning... Aug 14 12:01 PM
    • Will Housing Bottom in 2010 or 2012? [view article]
      Correct...boomers retiring will aggravate situation. Residential eal estate won't be a play for a least a decade...

      The end of all sequential, easy money bubbles is inflation...no more assets to put your cash in so you find hard assets (commodities) which causes prices to increase for all. Welcome to the world of stagflation until the excesses (cash) are driven out of the system via widescale devaluation of assets...
      Jun 27 02:37 PM
    • The Reverse Ripple Theory of Metropolitan Home Price Corrections [view article]
      I suspect your theory might be a bit off. I would argue that newer neighbourhoods are more likely to have bigger price swings because of a combination of (1) more supply (i.e. liquidity) being added in these areas and (2) newer homes (akin to higher relative prices for a new car than a used one with 1 mile on the odometer). The result is when the demand rises, prices get frothier at the 'margin' than in areas where there's a more solid historical data on pricing. Apr 07 07:36 PM
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