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Consumer Confidence Is Up – Why?

by Richard Warren | June 1, 2009

Of all the economic news that was released in the past few days, one was particularly surprising. Consumer confidence, which measures how optimistic people are about the economy, rose to its highest level in eight months (article). While not exactly at a high number, it was significantly higher than analysts had expected. What do people [...]

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Consumers Worried; Home Prices Down; Trillions in Losses; Any Good News? Well…

by Charles Feldman | March 26, 2008

How about some good news for a change about real estate, mortgages, credit, jobs, consumer confidence, Wall Street stability, the future of civilization as we know it?
Sorry, not gonna get it here.
Evidence is evidence and though some may like to engage in wishful thinking, the evidence is not good at all.
Goldman Sachs is actually [...]

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US Real Estate Crisis Causing Record Economic Distress

by Charles Feldman | February 27, 2008

It is amazing, by any standards, just how bad things have gotten on the economic front because of what was, at first, a crisis in the subprime mortgage market.
Of course, conditions had to be right (or wrong, in this case) for the subprime match to ignite such an enormous world-wide blaze, but, it has, [...]

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