My favorite personal finance blog Get Rich Slowly gave me a heads up earlier this week about an excellent radio piece that you should make the time to listen to. It’s titled The Giant Pool of Money, and you can download the mp3 for free through the 18th of this month. They interview a handful…
Tag: Financing
More Bad News for WaMu
How about a few more WaMu updates. The (bad) news seems to keep coming for the Seattle-based bank. First up, a look back at how WaMu got itself into this mess, courtesy of the Seattle Times: Where WaMu went wrong. This article has its own thread in the forums, so be sure to check that…
Bill Virgin: Homeownership has been oversold
Over at the P-I earlier this week, Bill Virgin chimed in on the housing mess again with yet another well-reasoned column: Homes are good investments, not slot machines or ATMs. In the great American sport of finger pointing and blame shifting, a new villain has emerged to explain the mortgage-finance crisis. The fault, it turns…
Snohomish Co. update & thoughts
Sorry no stats or graphs from me, just in the trenches reporting. Snohomish Co. Update: My wife is off providing sterling service tonight in Issaquah for clients who are buying/selling a home, (yes, we do business all over) so I’ve got some free time to do a bit of blogging and research. There are a…
Will Higher Government Loan Limits Boost Seattle’s Market?
I apologize for not making a more timely post on this subject, but it’s taken me a while to wrap my head around everything that’s really going on, and rather than spit out an uninformed piece full of quotes from equally uninformed newspaper reporters, I thought I’d do some actual research first. So here’s what…