There’s been a lot of chatter since yesterday afternoon about treasury rates, mortgage rates, the yield curve, and so forth—and for good reason. Here’s a good write-up from Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis on what’s going on: Mortgage Market Locks Up Yesterday 10 year treasury yields went soaring and the mortgage market literally seized up….
Tag: Economy
An Overview of the Housing/Credit Crisis
A couple people forwarded me a link to a 116-page pdf titled An Overview of the Housing/Credit Crisis And Why There Is More Pain to Come that is worth checking out. Here’s a look at the table of contents: Overview of the Great Mortgage Bubble Causes of the Great Mortgage Bubble Consequences of the Bursting…
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Declines in Home Prices & Consumer Spending are GOOD THINGS
I read a great post today over at Behavior Gap (thanks to an email from J.D. @ Get Rich Slowly) that is definitely worth sharing: The Great Reset A recent New York Times headline read: “Consumers Increase Savings While Spending Less” That sounds like a GOOD thing doesn’t it? It used to be that savings…
Bill Virgin: Will Recession Hit Seattle Harder than Elsewhere?
Yet another great editorial from Bill Virgin: Once considered recession-proof, Seattle no longer is Recessions, Seattle has long believed, were phenomena that happened to other, less fortunate, less blessed and, frankly, less gifted parts of the world. … Until now. As recently as the first half of 2008, you could find plenty of people who…