By The Tim on October 24, 2012
There is one major political topic that has been mysteriously absent from both major presidential campaigns during this year’s presidential election season… housing. Nick Timiraos noted this in the Wall Street Journal in early September. Here we are in late October, four debates later, and nothing has really changed. Barely a peep about housing from [...]
Posted in National, News, Opinion | Tagged economics, Economy, Inman, interest, mortgages, NPR, Obama, politics, Romney, tax deduction
By The Tim on May 22, 2012
On this week’s poll about people’s favorite economics blog, readers suggested a lot of economics blogs in addition to the five in my poll. There were so many suggestions that I figured they deserve their own post to share them with the full readership. I have personally never read most of these, so consider this [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged Blogroll, economics, Economy
By The Tim on May 31, 2010
Happy Memorial Day everyone. Since most readers are probably on holiday today, here’s a semi-open thread to discuss the economy. To kick things off, here are a few charts from Calculated Risk: So what do you think? Are we on the path to a full recovery, stalling just above the bottom, or headed for a [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged depression, directed_thread, economics, Economy, recession
By The Tim on November 23, 2009
Someone linked this up in the weekend open thread, and I thought it was a pretty good summary of why I am not convinced that we are presently on the road to recovery, so I thought I’d share it here. Are We Living In Zero Hour Now? If I tried to excerpt some of the [...]
Posted in Economy | Tagged debt, economics, Economy, politics
By The Tim on January 5, 2009
Some of you may recall back in February last year, when the Seattle Times ran a story about UW professor Theo Eicher’s land use regulations study, with the headline declaring “Rules add $200,000 to Seattle house price.” Here at Seattle Bubble we had serious questions about the dramatic conclusion in that study, and the methods [...]
Posted in News | Tagged demand, economics, fundamentals, growth_management, regulation
By The Tim on February 14, 2008
The big local housing story today is a study that was released recently by University of Washington Economics professor Theo Eicher. The thrilling title of the study is “Municipal and Statewide Land Use Regulations and Housing Prices Across 250 Major US Cities,” and it may be found (along with a number of related materials) here. [...]
Posted in News, Statistics | Tagged demand, economics, fundamentals, growth_management, regulation
