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"Foreclosures" is one more term which is subject to recent manipulations in order to convince 'investors' to spend more money... Look at this document - http://www.huduser.org/portal/periodicals/ushmc/winter09/hist_data.pdf - scroll it down to 'Table 19' , then look at the 2nd and 3rd graphs...

Ed, I admit I'm loosing a point :) . From one side - money excess in bank vaults, which is clearly indication of coming deflation(at list it was a case for 30's GD and 90's Japan. From other side - big question about oil prices to drop - because long-term investment demand, lack of oil...

Ed, this time your answer looks much less clear , but I assume it's very complicated too.. What I liked in your previos 'simple answers' - how you illustrate a 'tarp' game and why it doesn't resolve 'lending&spending' problem. So, if I get it right, Fed just 'exchanged' non-performing loans for...

Ed, thanks a lot for your excellent posts - it just helps to put an order in all things I see around. If you don't mind, I wanted ask you a question - you all the time tell about missing/discouraged growth, excecced debts, etc. - but you limit all this in US, while USD$ is actually world's...

I do agree with BLSH - even I'm not a big writer here.. And I'm not a day trader, but for long term I just got out out of stocks to bonds in beginning of 2008, and earned instead of loosing a lot like many 'optimistic' investors. And that's fine, all 'long stock'ers, you can write bad words...

Madoff story - in bottom line - just story of 'redistributing' of capital, although it caused a lot of pain.. Let's think for a moment about what we know: - he accepted a lot of money (billions) - he probably took some fees, but not significant part of the money, thus billions of investment...

I didn't like it - it's just scary: http://behindthereportnumbers.blogspot.com/

The broker is CMC Market. And the letter was good prediction for today - almost all of the tickers (8 out of 11) are down today, if we consider equal-weight short portfolio of all of them, it's about 3% profit right now.. Good shot, guys, specially for GM (-23.44% for now) , STI (-5.62%) ...

Just got a letter from my broker 1 hour ago (not gonna advertise its name, but big enough) - it speaks for itself: " Dear Client, Short Selling Restrictions Due to significant increases in the cost of borrowing stock in the underlying market, along with a lack of available shares to...

Just an opinion: http://behindthereportnumbers.blogspot.com/

I'm just wondering how this figures are shocking from one side and how the market is ignoring(self-denying?) it. I mean just simple math - the report figures are annualized, and if we calculate montlhy figures for April, it's just showing half-cut for starts: the report figures - from here -...