American Doomers may be wondering what all the fuss is about, but Canadians have been transfixed in recent months with the rise of the Loonie. Here’s what the Toronto Star said earlier today.[1] “The Canadian dollar continues to gain traction, breaking the 94 cent (U.S.) barrier for the first time in 30 years and buoyed by a forecast of one major bank that parity is in sight by the end of the year. The loonie settled at 94.20 cents, up 0.73 of a cent, yesterday – its highest close since July, 1977. So you may ask, “Just what does a…
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Check out this episode of My House is Worth What? filmed in North Miami:

Prior to the release of the NAR’s Pending Home Sales Report this morning, Yahoo Finance said optimistically: A real estate trade group will release data Friday that is expected to show a slight increase in pending sales of existing homes for April. If the data from the National Association of Realtors reveals what analysts predict, it could be an indication that sellers have lowered prices enough to cause a pickup in sales. Analysts expect, on average, a month-to-month gain of 0.4 percent for April, according to Briefing.com. The reality was a little gloomier when the numbers came out: An index…
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It’s the end of the week, the start of the month, and the beginning of a new year for us here at Doom.  We especially would like to express our appreciation for for all the great links, comments, and other wonderful stuff that Doomers contribute.  A special thanks this week to Rick LaForce, who gave us permission to run his creation: We look forward to seeing your contributions as well.

Hello twist! As a Doom contributor I’d like to congratulate you on the accomplishment of your first full year of bubble blogging. It’s been a blast.

Well Doomers, it was exactly one year ago today that HousingDoom was launched with this scintillating and informative post. I like to think we’ve gotten better with time. I hope so anyway. A little history After posting that initial effort , I struggled for the next few weeks to learn HTML and put together some resources for people who were interested in buying in the Phoenix East Valley. I was pretty amazed that at the time we were having 20-40 visitors/day. On June 23rd though, the Arizona Republic ran a story about the Gilbert bubble blogger. 1,200 people showed up…
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