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When The Fed Speaks, Housing Listens

Especially since the 1990′s, home prices have largely been driven, directly or indirectly, by the actions of The Fed. The Greenspan Fed enabled the Credit and Housing Bubbles, and the Bernanke Fed is doing everything it can to keep them inflated, extending and pretending, hoping the fundamental core economy will eventually catch up.
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Posted in Banking and Finance, Economic News, Foreclosures and Short Sales, The Daily Hotsheet | Tagged Bernanke, Deflation, Foreclosures, Greece, greenspan, Home Prices, Inflation, QE2, QE3, Shadow Inventory, The Fed | 7 Comments

Greenspan: 66 pages of why it’s not my fault

For those with some extra time today… spring2010_greenspan

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A Bubble in Search of a Pin

Should Greenspan and Bernanke have seen the bubble in housing and other assets and acted, or should we accept their defense that you can’t know whether there is a bubble until after the fact? We will look at research that suggests they should have known, and, at the least, policy makers should no longer be allowed to say, “How could I have known?” Continue reading

Posted in Best Of The Storm, Fresh Perspectives | Tagged Bernanke, GDP, Greece, greenspan, Housing Bubble, Inflation, National Debt, Recovery, Stock Market, The Dollar, The Fed, Unemployment | Leave a comment

All Bubbles Burst, Eventually

All Hail the Fed … as long as nothing goes wrong. Continue reading

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Inflation and Home Prices: Is the Romance Over?

The CPI and property values used to move in lock step, find out what changed. Continue reading

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