High tech industry. They stopped hiring new grads after 2001 or so, and they're just running the existing labour force into the ground. If you...
Yeah, those sneaky bastards will do exactly what you describe to play with the CPI stats. You're right on the money.
A loss of depositors is a margin call. If they can't pony up the cash, then they're bankrupt. Practically speaking, once they drop below a...
That's simply not true, asstard. Traditionally the rate of return on housing hasn't been any higher than inflation, and that's before you include...
My income's been increasing extremely rapidly because of what's been going on. Its all about positioning. If you didn't see the writing on the...
Doubles in value? Hardly. The long-run rate of appreciation in real estate is just slightly above the rate of inflation. The past 30 years has...
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/meetings/2008/20080303/advancedexp.htm Just scheduled on the 28th -- might Uncle Ben repeat his...
Might there be at least a few Orange County's hidden in admist this mess? Sure sounds like it, especially if school districts can be convinced to...
...But Ben (Bernanke) doesn't lend money into the housing market. Not a dime. And with the banking system essentially bankrupt, will there...
There are plenty of tech firms that would have been economic if fed funds were at 1%, and the money went into them. I mean, at 1%, a P/E of 100,...
Stock owners get leverage too. So don't try and use that argument. Only a moron would leverage a 3% asset (housing) with a 5% loan. Whereas, it...
They tried to pump the tech industry back up with 1% Fed Funds rates. Didn't work. Don't see why it'll work with the housing industry either....
Americans haven't been saving for the past 5-6 years, yet the stock market keeps going up (until recently). Why? Because the private sector is,...
These things *always* overshoot to the underside, just like the upside. Just like oil stocks were ridiculously undervalued in 2000 -- why won't...
Smart Money, part of the (major) problem with your analysis is that you haven't included the maintenance costs on the house, that you...
That "major drugstore" (I am assuming you mean Walgreens) has activities that can provide a 15%+ ROE. Long-run RE returns are similar to long-run...
Might I add...the implication of a PV of $50k, on a $100k property, is that the $100k property 'really', based on the long-term fundamentals, is...
The fallacy lies in looking at it from the point of view of 'paying down the mortgage'. That's not the issue. Leverage only works if the total...
Also, you might ask yourselves why most major corporations in America have been offloading their real estate to REITs and to other buyers...
Most of the people here are completely missing the point; if housing, according to Case and Shiller, barely has long-term appreciation in excess...
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