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5,000-acre flopped development in Pierce made front-page news in the Tacoma News Tribune today: Chapter 11 for Cascadia http://is.gd/4oCjp # PSBJ: Mastro Properties is in worse financial condition than “many creditors imagined." http://is.gd/4oHFI # New Seattle web-based news outlet The SunBreak takes a look at Seattle's commercial real estate mess: http://is.gd/4oIvA # What the heck?…

"Americans are still delusional about the long-term trajectory for house prices" http://is.gd/4fMeE # Peter Schiff on the Dori Monson show right now on 97.3FM # "Washington has lost almost 1 out of every 20 jobs since the state's economy began slumping early last year." http://is.gd/4joCS # Seattle P-I takes on the new NWMLS rules that…

via Mish:"We are at greater risk of a total meltdown due to a deflationary collapse than we were in 2007." http://is.gd/3XFvc # Wow, nearly 1 in 5 downtown Seattle offices are sitting empty right now, and vacancy "hasn't peaked." http://is.gd/3YwWH # Time to eliminate gov. subsidies that have turned homeownership into "an economic ball and…

RT @mattgoyer: New blog post: Brix Auction Results: $344-$500/Sq. Ft. http://bit.ly/twuKP # Seattle Times on Mastro Bankruptcy: Hundreds of local investors lose big as real-estate magnate falls http://is.gd/3Jz2L # Zillow + Windermere = BFF http://is.gd/3Lb97 # Interesting take on some possible unintended consequences of the $8k homebuyer tax credit: http://is.gd/3LRvd # Only 2 of 20…

Oooh, dramatic: "Collapse still haunts former WaMu workers." http://is.gd/3vFIp # Analysts are worried that Americans aren't spending "the way they did before the crash." Personally, I'm relieved. http://is.gd/3zplN # I think the Seattle Bubble office needs this poster http://despair.com/economics.html # Recession over, or merely the eye of the hurricane? http://is.gd/3Di97 # NewsFlash: Homebuyers want to…