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Category Archives: Fresh Perspectives
The euro crisis reaches the core
Greece, as it turns out, was the Eurozone’s canary. The canary was resuscitated and a small rescue mechanism was set up to revive a further canary or two – but beyond this the warning was ignored. The miners kept on working. They convinced themselves that this was the canary’s problem. Continue reading
Has Real Estate Bottomed? Here’s How to Tell
The absence of stories about the bottom in housing will mark the final nadir, because the real bottom can only be reached when everyone has abandoned housing as a pathway to easy money. Only when the public and investor class alike have completely lost interest in real estate as a “sure-fire” investment can the real trough be reached. Continue reading
Strategic default is moral imperative to prevent future housing bubbles
Underwater loan owners with payments exceeding rent have a moral imperitive to strategically default to provide deterence for banks to inflate future housing bubbles. Continue reading
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Tagged strategic default, Strategic Defaults, Strategic Foreclosure
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4 Ways The Government May Try to Stabilize the Housing Market
The only reason why all of these “extend and pretend” gimmicks are needed is that, with home prices at their current levels, there simply isn’t enough demand. If Uncle Sam would get out of the way and let prices find their bottom, then, by definition, there would be appropriate demand and the housing market would be in harmony.
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Permanently High Plateau Theory Touted for Australia Housing; Real Estate Agents Refuse to Disclose Sale Prices
At the height of every boom, bullish clowns inevitably come out of the woodwork touting the “permanently high plateau” prices will not drop much theory.
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Posted in Fresh Perspectives, Home Economics
Tagged Australia, Home Prices, Housing Bubble
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