Archive for January 8th, 2009

Real Estate Going Nowhere Fast

There’s a lot of things depending on stabilization in home prices, but don’t look for that to happen any time soon.  Inventory that has gone off the market recently is liable to come back again- soon.  [Thanks L!] Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — As the U.S. housing recession enters its fourth year, there’s no sign of a recovery because speculators account for most of the rise in sales. While the purchases are trimming the inventory of unsold properties, most of those bought by speculators will likely return to the market when prices rise again, hampering any recovery, said Nobel laureate economist…
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Flee? Risk-Free? How?

  • Published: January 8th, 2009
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U.S. Treasury debt prices eased on Wednesday as spotty auction results confirmed fears about the market’s ability to absorb a growing need for new issuance, offsetting any safety bid from careening stocks. [1] The last few weeks of the Bush lame-duck term is obviously cloaked in a financial fog of battle, so there’s got to be something heavy going down, but what it is I don’t know. One safe assumption is that the powers-that-be are trying to steer retail investors into decisions that will benefit their rich buddies — not retail investors. What about America’s risk-free sovereign Treasury Debt? Barron’s…
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