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Desperate measures for desperate times? By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. As house prices in the UK continue to slip-slide downwards, compounding fears that the multi-year housing … Read more
by klsklsk The best advice is to run the numbers and look at mortgage amortization calculator/tables. The difference in interest rate is really what will tip this one way or the … Read more
via Bloomberg: Convinced the stock rout is over? It has occasionally felt like it, on days like Friday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared almost 750 points. Isolated examples … Read more
via CNBC: Even with mortgage rates at the lowest level in three months, homebuyers are pulling away from the housing market. Mortgage application volume fell 5.8 percent last week from … Read more
Super expensive Hong Kong tops the global list for super-rich home buyers The world’s super-rich collectively spent $6.6 billion in a recent 12-month period on homes worth $25 million or more, … Read more
via MarketWatch: ‘Home flipping acts as a canary in the coal mine for a cooling housing market.’ While TV shows like “Fixer Upper” and “Flip or Flop” rule HGTV’s airwaves, … Read more
Reluctant Preppers, Released on 11/15/18 You may have heard that the near-record stock market internals have turned ghastly, where most companies are lagging, leaving only a few standard-bearers to prop … Read more
American companies are the largest source of demand for American stocks, and sharp tumbles have come when their buying slows. There are plenty of potential catalysts for the stock market sell-off that … Read more
Article here Some of the more concerning ones: -Crowdsourcing CMG Financial, a lender based in San Ramon, California, has created Homefundme.com, where prospective home buyers can tap the collective pockets of … Read more
Do you think stock buybacks are responsible for most of the gains in 2018? How did we come this far? We’ve gone from a very low point in March 2009 … Read more
A massive survey of recent homebuyers reveals all. By Stephen Punwasi, Better Dwelling: Have you ever woken up after a night of drinking, and only had a vague recollection of what … Read more
This is sad to see as the “new standard.” The term of auto loans is increasing as well. A lot of loans today are originated on 72 or 84 month … Read more
via Economic Prism: When Fed-printed dollars are flowing freely through the banking system and out to consumers, bidding wars break out for everything. Stocks, bonds, housing…free debt means lots of … Read more
by Steve St Angelo of SRSrocco Report The switch from Central bank gold sales to purchases had a big impact on the gold market. Precious metals investors fail to realize that Central banks … Read more
Tell me about the real estate prices in the city/country you live in. I need to continue to build a global perspective from people in those regions. Real estate in … Read more
China Warns on Debt, But Bond Buyers Shrug National policy makers nowadays have prioritized reducing risk in the financial system, and part of that involves telling local authorities to let … Read more