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The Law of Unintended Consequences: CMBS and TALF

great graphs to support your thesis...let's watch this market deteriorate even further

Obama's Housing Plan - What Will It Really Accomplish?

Dirk: Great article ..short, logical and to the point. appone beat me to my point about trying to arrest the market fall ...great comment

Better to Rent than Buy a Home

Regarding vacancy,
thanks for the additional info as well as well researched article...not to beat vacancy but i think there is confusion on it and now you have me more curious...the following is consistent (unfortunately i think) with both of our positions and maybe i missed your source

www.cnbc.com/id/289956...

Better to Rent than Buy a Home

15% vacancy rate is wrong and we would have riots...the correct # is a weighted average of owned plus rental....10.1% of rentals and 2.9% of owned. i dont have the current # handy but i think it hovers about 4%

Five Challenges Ahead as the Corporate Soup Lines Grow

the fdic will actually insure more than $200k per household...there are lots of ways to increase the limit which is $100k/account check fdic.gov/deposit/Depos...

Fannie Mae - Or May Not

terrific analysis

Mortgage Rates Fly Higher

rates are up because treasurys are way up

Bernanke: Markets Are Still Far from Normal

hey fan, go back to the dark ages where you belong

Deep Inside the Subprime Crisis

i'm not sure where you get the 10million in annual sales but as of march, it was less than half of that...www.reuters.com/articl...