Tag Archives: Pension Funds

8 Keys to the Housing Market in 2010

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Greg Fielding

Here are 8 keys to the housing market in 2010. 1. Shadow Inventory of Foreclosures: Will it be a tsunami or a trickle? Beginning with the first of the moratoria in August of 2008, banks simply have not been foreclosing … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Of The Storm, Home Economics, Social Mood Swings | Tagged Bailouts, Bank Failures, Bernanke, City Budgets, Consumer Spending, County Budgets, Credit Card Debt, Credit Crunch, Deflation, Depression, Extend and Pretend, Forecasts, Foreclosures, Frugality, HAMP, Holidays, Housing Bubble, Interest Rates, Jobless Recovery, Loan Modifications, Making Home Affordable, Moratoriums, NAR, negative equity, Obama, Pension Funds, Recession, Refinancing, REO, Shadow Inventory, State Budgets, Stimulus, Stock Market, strategic default, Strategic Defaults, Tax Credits, Taxes, Violence, Walk Away, Walking Away | Comments Off

Contra Costa County Faces Pension Tsunami

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Greg Fielding

Contra Costa County’s Pension Fund is broke from decades of excessive salaries and benefits for it’s employees. From The Contra Costa Times Negotiations may hold key to Contra Costa pension crisis Despite the stock market rebound, the county will have … Continue reading →

Posted in Home Economics, The Buying and Selling Process | Tagged County Budgets, Pension Funds | Comments Off

Pension Fund Losses: To Infinity And Beyond!

Posted on October 11, 2009 by Patrick Butterfield

Public Employee Pension Funds will need to cut benefits in the near future. They are bleeding billions of dollars and are left with few options other than doubling-down commercial real estate and other bad bets that they’ve already made. Make … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Of The Storm, Commercial Real Estate, Home Economics | Tagged Bailouts, California Budget, CalPERS, Fannie Mae, FHA, Freddie Mac, Pension Funds, Public Employees, Stimulus, Taxes, The Amero, The Dollar | 6 Comments