Real Estate Bubble

The Next Bubble: Is It Time for the Feds to Cap College Tuition?

Adam Levin | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Cost of Tuition, College Loans and Debt, Education, John Adams, College Tuition, Real Estate Bubble, Education Reform, Student Loan Debt, Money News

If the interest rate on student loans is doubled this summer, the camel's back will break and we will be facing yet another large-scale crisis like the one that crippled the economy in 2008.

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Heidi's Bar: A Metaphorical Tale Worth Sharing

Kenneth F. Bunting | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Junk Bonds, Bond Market, Heidi's Bar, Understanding the Financial Collapse, Understanding Derivatives, Irs, Humor, Derivatives, Financial Crisis, Real Estate Bubble, Bank Bailout, Financial Collapse, Business News

I do not know who wrote the contemporary fable about "Heidi's Bar," being spread through email blasts and Facebook postings. It wasn't me. I am neit...

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Medication for Middle-Class Mortgage Mania

Adam Levin | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Gse Mortgages, Freddie Mac, Subprime Mortgages, Bailout, Mortgage Modification, Home Affordable Modification Program, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Harp, Fannie Mae, Real Estate Bubble, Foreclosure, Real Estate, Housing Bubble, Obama, Adam Levine, Columbia Business School, Business News

These are extraordinary times and extraordinary times require public and private sector utilization of extraordinary measures to solve societal issues like the housing crisis. This issue cannot be properly addressed piecemeal.

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The Next Real Estate Bubble? Farmland

nytimes.com | William Nueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farm Prices, Land Auctions, Home Prices, Rural Land, Real Estate Bubble, Farmland, Real Estate, Food Prices, Business News

But as prices for agricultural land surge across America's grain belt, regulators are warning that a new real estate bubble may be forming -- echoing ...

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McLean and Nocera's All the Devils Are Here

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bear Stearns, Michael Lewis, Lehman Brothers, Bethany McLean, Real Estate Bubble, Business Books, Real Estate Books, All the Devils Are Here, Business News

This is the deep background of the financial crisis -- a clear-eyed introduction to the post-industrial jungle with its networks, frictionless interchanges, murky sense of accountability and unexpected consequences.

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CHASE HOME WEASEL BACKS OFF

Alfred Gingold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chase Home Mortgage, Chase Home Finance, Real Estate Bubble, Economy, Business News

It didn't quite fold--like the cheap camera to which Rabbi Yehua Levin likened Carl Paladino after the latter backed off his nasty remarks about homos...

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Goldman's CDOs Had Nothing to Do With the Real Estate Bubble

David Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fabrice Tourre, Cdos, Goldman Sachs Abacus, Goldman Sachs, Subprime Mortgages, Financial Reform, Financial Crisis, Real Estate Bubble, Credit Default Swaps, New York Federal Reserve Bank, Business News

If Goldman Sachs wanted to reduce its exposure to subprime mortgage investments, why didn't it simply sell the assets it owned?

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'Ghost Towns' Of The Recession: Tampa, Dublin And 7 Others

oobject.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dubai, Rio Vista, Shanghai, Beijing, Laurel Cove, Little Egg Harbor, Alicante, Dublin, Real Estate Bubble, Las Vegas, Ghost Towns, Tamp, Natoma, Ordos, Business News

From Tampa to Dublin to Alicante and Dubai empty condos and villas that were never home to anyone, litter the landscape as a sterile reminder of a par...

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Ireland Needs a New Political Party: It's a Matter of National Survival

Rory Fitzgerald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fianna Fail, Real Estate Crisis, Politics, George Lee, Economic Crisis, Irish Politics, Irish Civil War, Economists, Financial Crisis, Real Estate Bubble, Ireland, Business, Fianna Gael, Gombeen Men, World News

The severity of the economic crisis that Ireland is now experiencing means that there is a massive popular desire for a new type of politics.

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Looting Real Estate Booty

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Attorneys, Foreclosures, Real Estate Market, Investments, Real Estate Crisis, Mortgage Relief, Real Estate Bubble, Real Estate, New York, Investors, Housing Crisis, Business News

Investors should be part of the give and take of a robust real estate market, not pirates banking on the misery of a seller's desperate situation.

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The Next Great Recession Will Occur in This Decade

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011

I am writing a novel. It is about the next Great Recession that will occur in this decade. The book's subtext will cite the next Great Real Estate Bub...

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Investment Bubbles Dominated The Decade: AP

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interest Rates, Federal Reserve, Economic Bubble, Real Estate Bubble, Tech Bubble, S&P 500, Housing Bubble, Business News

NEW YORK (TIM PARADIS -- AP) - A string of exploding investment bubbles that started with the dot-coms and ended with mortgages and oil dominated the ...

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At Long Beach Mortgage, A Top Subprime Lender, Policies Were An Invitation To Fraud

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | David Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Long Beach Mortgage, Diane Kosch, Mortgages, Subprime Crisis, Washington Mutual, Real Estate Bubble, Wamu, Subprime, Housing Crisis, Video, Business News

First of two articles about the roots of the subprime lending bubble. Diane Kosch had one of the most thankless jobs in the subprime lending craze....

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And They Call It Ponzi Love

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Attorneys, Real Estate Market, Real Estate Crisis, Subprime Mortgage Market, Mortgages, Mortgage Lenders, Bank Lending, Subprime Mortgages, Mortgage Crisis, Ponzi Scheme, Banks, Real Estate Bubble, Real Estate, Economy, Business News

If buyers can't buy, the real estate market stays in a sinkhole. Can't the assholes in Washington understand that they really, really need us to save the market?

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Reports of Another Stock Market Fall this Fall Exaggerated

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Real Estate Crisis, Merrill Lynch, Credit, Stock Market Crash, Wall Street, Lehman Bros., Real Estate Bubble, Meltdown, Banks, Stock Market, Influenza, Wall Street Crisis, Financial Crisis, Business News

A quick survey of market catastrophes reveals that autumn is not only when the traditional harvest comes in, but also when we reap what we have sown -- whether it's corn or bad economic policy.

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Commercial Real Estate May Be the Next Asset Bubble to Burst

Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Toxic Assets, Banking Crisis, George Soros, Real Estate Bubble, Commercial Real Estate, Global Economic Crisis, Business News

The blow about to be delivered by this next bursting asset bubble may prove to be mortal for the global economy.

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Why I Have No Sympathy for Jake DeSantis

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bank Rescue Plan, 60 Minutes, Aig Outrage, Aig Bonuses, New York Times, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, A.I.G., Real Estate Bubble, Op-Ed, Jake DeSantis, Barack Obama, Edward Liddy, Aig Resignation, Aig Resigns, AIG and TARP, Resignation Letter Aig, Ed Liddy, Jake Desantis Aig, Jake De Santis, Jake Desantis Letter, AIG NY Times Resignation Letter, Jake Desantis Resignation Letter, AIG CEO, Aig, AIG Resignation Letter, Business News

You would think that those who created the financial mess would have some humility. But you would be wrong. DeSantis's letter is just one example.

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Owning Home Versus Renting, Balance Shifts Toward Buying

Wall Street Journal | NICK TIMIRAOS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renting Real Estate, Homeowners, Real Estate Bubble, Real Estate, Real Estate Values, Business News

The relative cost of owning versus renting is swinging back in favor of homeownership in some U.S. markets, buoyed by several quarters of sharp declin...

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The Reality Behind Real Estate

Michael Pento | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Subprime Mortgages, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Real Estate Values, Real Estate Bubble, President Obama, Economic Crisis, Foreclosure, Free Market, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Real Estate, Home Sales, Home Foreclosures, Business News

The Obama team feels it is better to artificially prop up home prices at an unsustainable level rather than have them retreat to a price that can be supported by the free market.

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Campaign Contributions Aided Real Estate Crash: Tribune

Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos, Robert Becker and Todd Lighty | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Zoning, Chicago City Council, Chicago Real Estate, Real Estate Bubble, Chicago Real Estate Crash, Chicago Zoning Laws, Aldermen Campaign Money, Housing Crisis, Chicago News

Neighborhoods that recently bustled with teardowns and new construction are now filled with many such unsold homes, testament to a collapsed housing b...

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America: Get Your Financial Act Together

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ayatollahs, U.S. Economy, Meltdown, Economy, U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, Credit Default Swaps, Global Crisis, Global Rescue Effort, g20, U.S. Recession, Housing Crisis, Fraud, Aig, Iran, Wall Street Crisis, Worldwide Recession, Wall Street, Bailout, Atomic Bombs, u.s. Economy Problems, Real Estate Bubble, Skullduggery, Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Tech Bubble, Business News

It would be as irrational to allow the Ayatollahs to build bombs as it would be to allow Wall Streeters to run amok again building their weapons of financial mass destruction.

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The Upside of Economic Apocalypse

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.25.2011

I wouldn't wish the current economic situation on ourselves. But we're here, and I can find real cause for optimism in an electorate that suddenly understands what we're up against as a country.

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Real Estate Roulette

Gihan Perera | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Housing Bust, Bear Sterns, Economy, Real Estate Bubble, Real Estate, Bear Sterns Bailout, Politics News

The game is rigged: while Bear Stearns got a $29 billion government bailout, over $60,000 of wealth equity per homeowner was lost in the crash. We must demand the next president to take action

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Florida Caught In Eye Of Burst Real Estate Bubble

New York Times | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Real Estate Boom, Bubble Bursting, Mortgage Crunch, Real Estate Frenzy, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Subprime Loans, Real Estate Bubble, Subprime Loan Crisis, Real Estate, Subprime Mortgages, Credit Crunch, Business News

Two years ago, when Eric Feichthaler was elected mayor of this palm-fringed, middle-class city, he figured on spending a lot of time at ribbon-cutting...

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