Barack Obama yesterday: President Barack Obama outlined major new government stimulus and jobs proposals on Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to “spend our way out of this recession.” Without giving a price tag, Obama proposed a package of new spending for highway, bridge and other infrastructure projects, deeper tax breaks for small businesses and…
Quick Look: November 2009 in Bar Charts
Time for an installment of “quick look,” a series of posts in which I present a fresh set of charts for some recent data with minimal commentary. Today’s theme is King County SFH November stats in bar charts compared to each November since 2000. Note that the definition of “Active Listings” was revised in July…
Why was WaMu really closed, and what are the FDIC & OTS hiding?
On Friday the Puget Sound Business Journal posted another great piece by Kirsten Grind on all the shady dealings that went on behind the scenes in the WaMu shutdown ordeal. The piece, titled The Washington Mutual decision is currently available on their site only to subscribers, but over on Portfolio.com (one of their sister sites)…
Poll: Guess the lowest 1-month total closed SFH sales in King Co. for winter ’09-’10
For reference, last winter’s lowest was 661 in February. Here’s a comparison of last winter to where we’ve been so far heading into winter this year: Please vote in this poll using the sidebar. This poll will be active and displayed on the sidebar through 12.12.2009.
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2009-12-05
Seattle Times still pumping house flippers http://is.gd/560WO # More nonsense about keeping people in "their" homes (i.e. the homes they never should have tried to buy in the 1st place) http://is.gd/57XDl # Great commentary on the "real estate non-market" by Rich Toscano in SD equally applicable here in SEA http://is.gd/57ZuN # Visualizing the Fortune 500…