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Housing Bubble and Bear Links (1,504 Links)
Created by ian 2 years 226 days ago in Finance. Views: 12,000. Link Views: 396,431
Tags: housing bubble  investing  real estate  subprime  mortgage  finance  economics
Related Tags: wall street  business  stocks  video  politics  consumer issues  credit crisis  
This channel was created on April 10, 2007, during the peak of the housing mania, to warn investors of the coming collapse in home prices. For quite some time we have warned investors to get out of U.S. stocks.

This channel represents the best of the best in finance related links. Also follow my recommended reading on twitter.com/ianbindloss.
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"A Lot of Room on the Upside" for Gold as the Dollar Wobbles
Posted by ian 108 days ago (finance.yahoo.com).  Views: 35
Tags: gold  inflation  dollar  economy
Related Tags: housing bubble  credit crisis  economics  peter schiff  recession  finance  
Given the devastation of Wall Street and financial markets in 2008, a lot of folks have been surprised gold hasn't fared better. Since March 2008, gold has twice been rebuffed at the $1000 level, disappointing its most ardent supporters. But Peter [More...]
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"Buy non perishable foods stuffs. Stock up on things like razor blades, or shaving cream, or toothpaste, or batteries -- because they're only going to be more expensive."
Posted by ian 1 year 209 days ago (europac.net).  Views: 1,397
Tags: peter schiff  economics  housing bubble
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Transcribed from the audio in the link above (Wall Street Unspun with Peter Schiff, 4/23/2008): "Look what happened to food prices today. You got reports from Costco that they're trying to restrict the ability of their customers to buy rice, [More...]
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"California is big enough that it is going to drag a lot of the nation down with it"
Posted by ian 1 year 187 days ago (iht.com).  Views: 178
Tags: california  housing bubble  recession
Related Tags: credit crisis  gold  wall street  economics  peter schiff  inflation  banks  
The figures are pretty bad. The median home price has fallen by 29 percent in the year to March, according to the California Association of Realtors, and repossessions are increasing. Unemployment hit 6.2 percent in March, up 1.2 percentage points from [More...]
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"Cheerleaders Will Face Reality, Eventually"
Posted by ian 1 year 145 days ago (financialsense.com).  Views: 110
Tags: wall street  housing bubble  stocks  economics
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Cheerleaders Will Face Reality, Eventually by John Browne, Senior Market Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital, June 27, 2008 When listening to the typical, television-based, Wall Street cheerleader work themselves up into a bull market frenzy, one is [More...]
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"Forensic" Analysis of Lehman Problems Points to Countrywide-Type Disaster (pdf)
Posted by ian 1 year 93 days ago (researchrecap.com).  Views: 124
Tags: lehman  credit crisis  housing bubble  banks
Related Tags: economics  stock market  wall street  gold  inflation  peter schiff  recession  
PDF content pasted below for those who prefer html: By this time, most of us are aware of the sweeping damages caused by the collapse of Countrywide Financial Corporation (CFC). In fact, problems were apparent as far back as October 24, 2006, when [More...]
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"I work retail and I can tell you something big is definitely coming"
Posted by ian 1 year 225 days ago (democraticunderground.com).  Views: 1,427
Tags: consumer spending  recession  economy  retail  jobs  credit crisis
Related Tags: economics  stock market  housing bubble  banks  wall street  gold  bailout  
A poster named TwixVoy writes: "I have worked retail for several years. I am in mid-level store management right now. I don't want to say exactly what company I work for, but it is in the top 3 largest. I work at a store in a major city. There [More...]
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"If You Listen to Economists... You will Go Broke"
Posted by ian 1 year 14 days ago (financialsense.com).  Views: 112
Tags: economics  credit crisis
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by Mike Stathis, Managing Principle, Apex Venture Advisors In my last piece, I think I made it clear that the vast majority of economists are not only clueless, but very dangerous to your financial health. Make no mistake. At best they are broadcasters [More...]
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"In 6 lousy weeks, all of the total credit in the banking system created by the Fed since 1913 was almost instantly doubled!"
Posted by ian 1 year 20 days ago (dailyreckoning.com).  Views: 186
Tags: federal reserve  credit crisis  housing bubble
Related Tags: economics  stock market  banks  gold  wall street  inflation  peter schiff  
by The Mogambo Guru at The Daily Reckoning. The astonishing news to me was that the Fed has pledged to plow $540 billion into the money market, which is composed of very short-term debt, which is, as I already said, pretty astonishing since the total [More...]
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"It is all part of the process of an unprecedented decline in America’s standard of living, which is the inevitable result of years of living beyond our means."
Posted by ian 1 year 215 days ago (financialsense.com).  Views: 605
Tags: peter schiff  economics
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by Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital, April 18, 2008 Recent high profile bankruptcies of mainstay American retailers, such as The Sharper Image and Linens ‘n Things, as well as the proposed mergers between Blockbuster/Circuit City and Delta/Northwest, [More...]
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"It is natural when you are a debtor [nation] that you lean in the direction of inflation, because it makes paying it back so much easier."
Posted by ian 1 year 187 days ago (goldnews.bullionvault.com).  Views: 585
Tags: debt  housing bubble  economics  inflation
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"In my view," says John H.Makin – a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute writing in the Wall Street Journal – "the least bad option [in fixing the financial crisis] is for the Federal Reserve to print money to help [More...]
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"Not Your Grandfather's Depression" by Peter Schiff
Posted by ian 1 year 31 days ago (financialsense.com).  Views: 99
Tags: great depression
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October 17, 2008 Not Your Grandfather’s Depression The current stock market crash has spurred a vital national debate about the causes and catalysts of the Great Depression. The dominant school of thought believes that the stubborn refusal of then [More...]
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"Retail zombie effect" - Every empty store front is a reminder to consumers not to spend.
Posted by ian 329 days ago (messages.finance.yahoo.com).  Views: 100
Tags: retail  consumer  economy
Related Tags: credit crisis  recession  economics  depression  housing bubble  jobs  
The bankruptcy environment will be like a pathogen sweeping across the land. The retail closings will outdo even what Bloomberg reported. It is unknown what effect this depression will have long term on the consumer, but with a reported 50k stores [More...]
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"Revolution coming with next meltdown"
Posted by ian 100 days ago (marketwatch.com).  Views: 81
Tags: stock market  bubble  economy
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New bull, new bubble, new meltdown by 2012 Commentary: Brutal 'collateral damage' will follow recovery By Paul B. Farrell Aug 11, 2009 ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Something's in the air. You can feel it. A new bull. Hype? Maybe, but [More...]
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"S.F. is going broke, whether you like it or not!"
Posted by ian 180 days ago (myprops.org).  Views: 26,379
Tags: san francisco  california
Related Tags: housing bubble  real estate  politics  credit crisis  bailout  poll  schiff  
6/16/09 Update: I have posted City of San Francisco Salaries for 2008. The data there also shows how much each employee received in overtime. It's gonna happen, whether you like it or not! Are you wondering why California state and local [More...]
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"S.F. is going broke, whether you like it or not!" - 2008 Salary Update
Posted by ian 158 days ago (myprops.org).  Views: 2,447
Tags: san francisco  california
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The chart above shows the top earning San Francisco city employees for 2008 according to data from the San Francisco Chronicle. This post is an update for my "S.F. is going broke, whether you like it or not!" post, which generated a lot of [More...]
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"Superstar" hedge fund manager David Tepper lost over $1 Billion for his investors in the last quarter - I thought these funds were supposed to "hedge" against a bear market?
Posted by ian 1 year 221 days ago (online.wsj.com).  Views: 1,173
Tags: hedge funds  housing bubble  credit crisis
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Credit Crunch Hurts Hedge-Fund Stars Tepper, Meriwether Are Among Those Caught in Squeeze By JENNY STRASBURG April 14, 2008; Page C3 The Wall Street Journal The debt squeeze is dogging some of the biggest names in credit investing. David [More...]
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"Terrible Year Baked In": Govt. Stimulus Needed, But Not This Bill, Wolf Says (video)
Posted by ian 284 days ago (finance.yahoo.com).  Views: 71
Tags: credit crisis  economy  bailout
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Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator for The Financial Times, is a believer in the power of government spending to revive the economy, especially now when the private sector is in major retreat. But believing in fiscal stimulus is much different [More...]
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"The British are in a deeper hole. They specialized in finance in a way that may prove unsustainable."
Posted by ian 303 days ago (usatoday.com).  Views: 74
Tags: credit crisis  united kingdom
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By David J. Lynch, USA TODAY LONDON — Vanderlei Silva sits squarely in the middle of the global financial crisis. A Brazilian by birth, he immigrated to the United Kingdom eight years ago to work for a Dutch retailer. Now, aftershocks from a credit [More...]
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"The Crisis Begins To Unravel" - Countrywide vs. Enron
Posted by ian 2 years 36 days ago (messages.finance.yahoo.com).  Views: 81
Tags: countrywide  enron
Related Tags: housing bubble  wall street  angelo mozilo  real estate  stocks  bubble  
Found this one Wikipedia when I searched Enron, sound familiar? Then, a few days later, on October 17, 2001, Enron announced that its third-quarter results were negative due to one-time charges of over $1 billion. Enron management claimed the losses [More...]
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"The deterioration in credit cards is accelerating faster than many had expected"
Posted by ian 1 year 131 days ago (smartmoney.com).  Views: 154
Tags: credit cards  banks  capital one  jp morgan chase
Related Tags: credit crisis  housing bubble  recession  gold  finance  economics  bailout  
Investors sold on plastic may want to reduce their balances. Credit card issuers - ranging from standalone companies such as Discover Financial Services (DFS) and American Express Co. (AXP) to those at banks like Washington Mutual Inc. (WM) and [More...]
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