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Saturday, June 20, 2009
NY Times: Treasury and Bill Gross
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From the NY Times: Treasury’s Got Bill Gross on Speed Dial [Bill Gross'] mood brightens when he talks about how much money Pimco could ...
House Prices and the Unemployment Rate
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We've discussed supply and demand, price-to-income and price-to-rent ratios, and real house prices, in trying to forecast how long hous...
Popular Google Product Suffers Major Disruption
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UPDATED: Service disruption resolved on Monday June 22nd. For visitors of many Google hosted blogs, the redirect feature from a blogspot add...
Book Review: The Greenspan Problem
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CR Note: This is a guest post by Mathew Padilla of the Mortgage Insider blog . All opinions expressed are Matt's. A book review by Math...
California Foreclosure Prevention Act: Many Lenders Exempt
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From the Sacramento Bee: 7 lenders get immunity from state foreclosure prevention act Bank of America Home Loans, CitiMortgage and Carringt...
GE Vice Chairman: No Green Shoots
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From Bloomberg: GE Vice Chair Rice Sees No ‘Green Shoots’ in Orders (ht Comrade de Chaos) ... “I am not particularly of the green shoots gro...
More GM Bankruptcy
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During the Chrysler bankruptcy, I excerpted and linked to lawyer Steve Jakubowski's Bankruptcy Litigation Blog. Steve has taken it a st...
Friday, June 19, 2009
Bank Failure #40: First National Bank of Anthony, Anthony, KS
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Regrets to Kansas Carry on my wayward bank... Now, dust in the wind by Soylent Green is People From the FDIC : Bank of Kansas, South Hutchin...
Bank Failures 38 & 39: Southern Community Bank, Fayetteville, Georgia and Cooperative Bank, Wilmington, North Carolina
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Spring wanes to Summer Crushing debt broods over banks Fresh Winter for one. by Soylent Green is People From the FDIC : United Community Ban...
California Mortgage Loan Data by Product and Type
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NOTE: These graphs were correct, but the data was incorrect. The State added a zero to the HELOC data - I'll post corrected charts tomo...
California Survey of Loan Servicers Q1
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The 2009 First Quarter results from the Department of Corporations Survey of Loan Servicers has been released. Historical data is here . Th...
FHFA Director: May Expand Loan Refinance to 125 Percent LTV
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From Bloomberg: Obama Mortgage Refinancing Program May Expand, Lockhart Says President Barack Obama’s program to help more homeowners refin...
Record Unemployment Rates in Eight States
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Note: the BLS started keeping state records in 1976, so obviously this doesn't include the Depression. From the BLS: Regional and State ...
Office Buildings: 50 Percent Off in London
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Here are some more CRE price declines ... From Bloomberg: Simon Halabi’s Companies Default on $1.9 Billion Debt (ht Brian) Billionaire inve...
FDIC's Bair: 'Too Big to Fail' must end
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From CNBC: 'Too Big to Fail' Doctrine Must End: FDIC's Bair “Clearly, there has been moral hazard and lack of market discipline...
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Coldwell Banker CEO: "Move-up buyers absent"
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From Reuters: Housing Sales Lackluster This Spring: Coldwell (ht Annie) Jim Gillespie, president and chief executive of Coldwell Banker Re...
DataQuick: California Bay Area Home Sales Increase
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From DataQuick: Uptick in Bay Area home sales and median price The median price paid for a Bay Area home jumped in May as more expensive ho...
Corus Bank Faces Deadline Today
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No news yet on the June 18th deadline , but if you want to see some dumping ... Corus faces a June 18 deadline from the Office of the Comptr...
Blogger Redirect Error
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Sorry to bother everyone with this issue. Starting Tuesday, Google / Blogger erroneously started inserting a redirect warning for visitors o...
DOT: U.S. Vehicles Miles increase YoY in April
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This is the first same month year-over-year increase in miles driven (April 2009 compared to the April 2008) since November 2007. Of course ...
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