jimsep

Dividends Show Differences Between Financials

If more banks paid out more dividends to their shareholders (why not, that's primarily what they are there for) they would be paying more attention to what they were doing with their money and less likely to do the stupid things they have been doing.

US Housing Inventories Reach Record Highs

Inventories are going up in part because builders can't seem to stop building. Every transcript I read of a public homebuilder laments the state of the current market, yet is looking for a way to increase market share.
And they are still completing the build-out of communities! Sems like a death wish.
Banks should do us all a favor and stop lending to them for the purpose of new builds for a while. Then the situation could right itself pretty quickly.