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Are They Serious? Fed Takes Mortgage Debt as Collateral, Bear Stearns Gets Bailout, and President Bush is Confident in the Economy!

by Joshua Dorkin | March 14, 2008

This week has been an extremely volatile one in the world of real estate and the economy. We’ve seen Gold at $1,000 an ounce, a collapsing dollar, oil skyrocketing, an much more. Of everything that has happened, probably the most shocking is what came out of the Fed this week . . .
According [...]

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Economy

Real Estate Crisis Worsens and Takes the Rest of the Economy Down with it!

by Charles Feldman | March 12, 2008

If someone were to have said, say a year ago, that there would be a crisis in the subprime mortgage market that would lead to world-wide economic chaos, that person would no doubt have been laughed at.
Sadly, though, that is exactly what has happened and the evidence just this week is overwhelming.
But, before the depressing [...]

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Economy

Real Estate Headlines: Mortgage and Economic Stories Worth Reading for Friday, October 26

by Joshua Dorkin | October 26, 2007

Mortgage Meltdown
Countrywide Rises Despite Loss
Countrywide Financial swung to a huge loss during its third-quarter, but investors were just glad that it wasn’t worse . . . Countrywide and other lenders are reeling as borrowers default on their loans at higher rates. The spiking defaults have forced Countrywide to lay off thousands of employees and line [...]

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Economy

Signs of a Weak US Economy: Gold Screams, Dollar Falls, Euro to the Mainstream?

by Joshua Dorkin | September 29, 2007

On Friday, Gold hit a 27 year high as investors around the world ran to safety from the plummeting US dollar. Hitting $752.80 an ounce, Gold is at levels we haven’t seen since January of 1980.
Additionally, the dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major currencies, fell 0.8 per cent to a record [...]

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Economy

Signs of a Weak US Economy: Canadian Dollar Equal in Value to US Dollar

by Joshua Dorkin | September 20, 2007

I truly enjoyed watching the President lie through his teeth again in this morning’s press conference about how good the economy was doing. I’m not sure what economy he’s looking at, but it is certainly not ours. It seems like things just continue to decline here in the good ‘ole USA . [...]

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