- Part 1 of another story on how WaMu killed itself. http://is.gd/4B1Yc Is it just me or does Killinger look a bit like Willem Dafoe? #
- Is Seattle losing recent competitions for new Aerospace jobs in part due to high real estate prices? http://is.gd/4BbR9 #
- Up north: Banks foreclosing on Whatcom County's unsold condo projects – http://is.gd/4BbVB #
- Part 2 of the Seattle Times' latest WaMu post-mortem piece. http://is.gd/4CT80 (focuses on the designed-to-fail Option-ARM) #
- Interesting commentary on the phony recovery over at The Housing Bubble Blog http://thehousingbubbleblog.com/?p=5702 #
- Looks like a convoluted, idiotic, and expensive expansion of the homebuyer tax credit may be "a done deal." http://is.gd/4F67o #
- Looks to me like Boeing's eventual departure from the Puget Sound is basically a done deal at this point. http://is.gd/4FuAS #
- Third quarter issue of Sound Housing Quarterly is live! http://housingquarterly.com/ #
- Major lawsuit against WaMu execs cleared to move forward http://is.gd/4G5WT #
- Obama: "The deficit is not big enough yet. Plz expand by another $10 billion or so. kthxbai!" http://is.gd/4HkT7 #
- Kendra "Bubbles are for Bathtubs" Todd was on the Kirby Wilbur show this morning. Apparently she has moved to Seattle. #
- Interesting… Google jumps into mortgages and real estate http://is.gd/4HPIY #
- Seattle Times: Loss of new 787 line may hurt Snohomish County housing market http://is.gd/4Ik8n Yeah, it just "may." #
- RT @Redfin: Broker to Congress: Don’t Extend the Credit (Just Keep Rates Low): http://bit.ly/4mu2A5 #
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Ray Pepper » Oct 31, 2009 at 6:50 am
Tim, I hope you keep doing this weekly Twitter update. Not sure if you caught this one. Sterling will no doubt be the next Venture Bank here in the PNW.
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/10/19/daily42.html?ana=yfcpc
wreckingbull » Oct 31, 2009 at 7:33 am
Excellent. Nice to have a hall of shame inductee in our midst. Maybe she can drop by and join the conversation sometime.
http://realestaterecord.blogspot.com/2007/10/kendra-todd.html
scotsman » Oct 31, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Tim, you nattering nabob of negativism- if you keep this up even Kary will become convinced the end is near. I have this vision of him sitting in the ashes, checking the math, and claiming no one could have predicted it. ;-)
I also hope Kendra drops by. I promise to play nice. There are just a few questions I’d like to ask her…
The Tim » Oct 31, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I’m working on putting together a weekly live call-in podcast, and Kendra is on the short list of guests I’ll be trying to get on the show.
sf_boomerang » Nov 1, 2009 at 5:54 am
Re: The tax credit “extension”… am I reading that right???
If so, I’d like to meet the couple making $250k a year that would be persuaded to “move up” by an $8k tax credit.
Kary L. Krismer » Nov 1, 2009 at 7:47 am
RE: sf_boomerang @ 5 – In business school one of my professors said that doctors and airline pilots would flush $1.00 down the toilet to save $0.30 in taxes.