Falconflight

What Lies Ahead for the Housing Market?

JewHaters not welcome here.


On Dec 07 08:13 AM User 433587 wrote:

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> Whoever said it was better to rent ???????????
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> Its the 2nd and 3rd and 4th homes that are the problem .
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> Its a property cycle and people just got to wait it out.
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> Time to get confidence in America "again" as the US goes so does
> property prices --
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> Why the "heck" is the USA STILL over in Iraq , Afghanistan etc etc.??
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> Just who makes US foreign policy ??? AIPAC ?????

Insiders Selling into the Rally

The most insightful post of the day. Don't know why there'd be all the thumbs down?


On Dec 01 04:45 AM AxIt wrote:

> This is a partial information and thus not very useful.
> Toghether with selling figures, I'd like to know:
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> - How many shares these guys are still holding (did they sell off
> everything? Are they still holding 90% of the assigned shares?)<br/>-
> How many shares they will be assigned at 2009 closing (are they doing
> a turnover between old options and new ones, taking profits on the
> older issued?)
> - The yearly pattern of insider buy/selling for at least the last
> ten years (what usually happens at year end? Is it that uncommon
> a selling in this season or it happens anyway independently of the
> market conditions?)
>
> With thes infos I can give a meaning to the selling figures, otherwise
> these are just number thrown on the table without any real significance.

The Distorted Shape of Our Emerging Recovery

Seems to me that the author is pining for more efficient Technocrats. Well Il Duce' doesn't live here anymore.

Maybe a through flushing of birthright Pols. and a return of healthy, even hostile sneering at the ever creeping Stassi-like Oligarchy would help return the nation to a bit more realism and productivity.

The Distorted Shape of Our Emerging Recovery

On Nov 19 03:58 AM maverta wrote:

Have some confidence in our leaders.

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A product of government schooling. And who are those leaders pray tell? Certainly not the Eunuch-In-Chief, or the various graft skimmers and tax cheats, ie. pelosi, reid, rangle, geithner, dodd, and approximately 100 other highly placed politburo members?

China Ramps Up Coal Reserves: Consol Energy Will Benefit

Thanks for the update! Have 1750 w/ PCX. Been trading this hot potato all Summer.

The Economy Is Bipolar: Get Used to It

And I would bet my portfolio that 90% of Fed. Congressmen and Senators will be re-elected in 2010. Who's the blame? I mean really, who's the blame?


On Oct 30 01:34 PM User 353732 wrote:

> The economy is not bipolar it is bi-furcated.
> The small part at the top where the elites luxuriate in splendor.
> They control all the levers of power, resource allocation and mass
> propaganda. For them these are times of great growth and jubilation.
> All they survey is under their dominion and they take what they want,
> when they want and as often as they want.
> The large part at the bottom is where ordinary Americans live, where
> many struggle and are fearful and stressed. For them these are times
> of compression and distress. They listen for the financial knock
> in the night from the elites that means more taxes, regulations,
> transfer payments and humiliations even as disposable income falls,
> credit becomes scarcer and net worth either stagnates or erodes.
> For them growth is remote and jubilation a distant memory.
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> A bi-furcated economy and a bi-furcated nation. The economy of the
> Occupiers where every prospect pleases and the economy of the Occupied
> where the sun shines less frequently and the vistas become more barren.
>
>
> If only it were bi-polar, so polarity could be reversed.

Dow 10,000: Caveat Emptor

Good contextual piece. Thanks!

Taxes: How to Maximize Dividend Stock Earnings

Very very helpful information. Thanks!

New 'Crash' Warnings for U.S. Markets

I'm not a economist,nor a seasoned trader, but reading about insider selling surely gets my attention. I certainly would appreciate a contrarian analysis from someone with the wit to proffer a writ.

Why U.S. Government Should Cut Federal Workers' Lavish Compensation

I'm a Federal Employee with 26 years service. I have a Master Degree and started at 16,500 per annum.

Yes, after 26 years I'm making pretty good money. I'm paying approx. 3,000 per annum in health plan premiums, my plan, as all FEHB plans pay almost nothing for dental or vision. My plan required that I go to PPO's in order to get 85% coverage of bills. I have family deductibles of $750 per annum in order to receive benefits and I have various copayments to meet for services rendered.

I cannot retire until age 55 with 30 years service, as I am grandfathered under the old plan (CSRS) which changed on or about 1Jan84.

Everyone hired since that time relies mostly on Social Security, plus a 401 K (TSP), matched dollar for dollar up to 4% and 50 cents on the dollar up to 6% total. The Federal portion of the retirement benefits is quite small now.

As for myself under the old plan, I can expect to retire at 55% of my base pay after averaging my last 3 years (high 3) pay.

Under the new plan, these folks will not get their retirement until they're approaching social security age, since to receive the fed. pension alone would not be enough to survive.

It is absolutely true that fed employees were given considerably higher cost of living adjustments with Pres. Bush than under Clinton. I do believe Obama should have opted to afford 0% cost of living adjustment rather than the 2.0% lowered from 2.4% based on the CPI. I do agree that when the country is in a downturn, especially as severe as this one, for symbolic value if nothing else, federal employees should bear some burden.

I certainly realize and appreciate the wealth producers of the country, because they do pay my salary. Citizens should rail against the bureaucracy, their pay and sense of entitlement. No doubt. Too many federal employees get that glazed look in their eyes when I say the TaxPayer is paying for this or that.

One more comment...while I do live reasonably well after all these years, I do pay substantial fed. income taxes. I do resent the multitudes of income earners that now pay no fed. income taxes. What nearly 50% no longer pay income taxes?

Every income earner needs to pay income taxes, otherwise they have no 'skin' in the game and could care less if the "rich" get their earned wealth confiscated, essentially to feed the TaxEaters and their ever growing demands for equal outcome, not equal opportunity.

Clunkers and Home Buyer Tax Credit: All the Same Thing

Sounds like a recent piece from Newsweek, "We're all Socialists now." Not one penny of wealth is created by these subsidies and again it likely coddles the most stretched, underproductive segment of the economic continuum. Essentially it's the TaxPayer swaddling the TaxEater.

Analyzing Strange Volume on the NYSE

More debate on this issue is wanted, wanted, wanted. I, as a layman, want to digest this and its implications. This article should be a daily reading.

'Speculation Demand' Should Not Be Underestimated in This Market Mess

Excellent article and food for thought especially for a newby like me. Wish there was more posting about the premise. Thx

Spain Crumbles

Excellent, apprceciate some insight into Europe, we are woefully ignorant about our counterpart's situation.

The Market Bubble Is About to Pop

"High commodity prices caused growth in the U.S. to be subdued during the 2000s. Now, with the emerging markets growing larger and driving commodity prices higher, U.S. growth will be even more restrained."

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Question: Why wouldn't higher commodity prices also subdue growing in emerging markets? Are the other costs associated with capital formation/utilization so much cheaper (of course including labor) in emerging markets that it overcomes commodity prices?