Category — Economy
Fed: N.C., Region’s Economy Flattened in Late 2011
The Federal Reserve’s latest report on the country’s economic conditions paints a picture of an...
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January 12, 2012 No Comments
Wall Street’s New Watcher
-The Wall Street Journal Two weeks after moving into a skyscraper near Wall Street to start assembl...
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October 3, 2011 No Comments
House Is Gone but Debt Lives On
-The Wall Street Journal LEHIGH ACRES, Fla.—Joseph Reilly lost his vacation home here last year w...
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October 3, 2011 No Comments
Senate leaders announce bipartisan agreement to avert government shutdown
-The Washington Post Senate leaders agreed to a deal Monday evening that is almost certain to avert...
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September 27, 2011 No Comments
Fed bond-buying decision keeps mortgage rates at record lows
-Housingwire The Federal Reserve's plan to reinvest principal payments on some bonds into mortgage-...
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September 26, 2011 No Comments
What New Jumbo Mortgage Rules Mean for Expensive Zip Codes
-Yahoo! Finance On Oct. 1, the size of mortgages eligible for purchase by Fannie Mae and Freddie Ma...
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September 26, 2011 No Comments
Why only small business can save America
-USA Today The bad news is all around us and never seems to end. If it's not Tea Party Republicans ...
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August 9, 2011 1 Comment
20 Percent Down For Home Purchase The New Standard, Again?
-The Real Estate Bloggers The housing market may be getting a little tighter in a couple of months....
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August 4, 2011 No Comments
As housing prices drop, closing costs are rising
-MSNBC Nationwide, the average origination and title fees on a $200,000 purchase mortgage totaled $...
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July 22, 2011 No Comments
Only 49% of homeowners surveyed say home worth more than mortgage
-Housingwire For the second month in a row, less than half of the nation's homeowners think their h...
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July 22, 2011 No Comments
Conflicts in federal programs leave underwater homeowners adrift
-Housingwire Government programs aimed at refinancing mortgages for homeowners in negative equity a...
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July 20, 2011 No Comments
Europe’s pain is U.S. homeowners’ gain
-MSNBC The threat of a debt default by Greece and other European countries has created financial tu...
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July 20, 2011 No Comments
More Americans to exit homeownership
-Housingwire Political deadlock mixed with terrible housing market conditions will eventually turn ...
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July 20, 2011 No Comments
Fed’s Massive Stimulus Had Little Impact: Greenspan
-CNBC The Federal Reserve's massive stimulus program had little impact on the U.S. economy besides ...
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July 13, 2011 No Comments
Fed’s new money policy: ‘Wait and see’
-MSNBC After pumping more than a trillion dollars into the financial system, forcing interest to ne...
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July 13, 2011 No Comments
With $600K, you can get a room in NYC – or a mansion in Des Moines
-The Daily Forget Beverly Hills or Manhattan. If you really want to live the high life, try … Des...
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July 12, 2011 No Comments
Why Real Estate May Be The Buying Opportunity of the Decade
-Moneyland No one knows what the economy or the stock market will do over the next six months. But ...
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July 12, 2011 1 Comment
Think where you live is pricey? Try Tokyo or Sydney
-Life Inc. Americans may complain about the cost of living, but life is actually getting a bit chea...
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July 11, 2011 No Comments
Cities Unaffected by a Bad Economy
-Yahoo! Finance The U.S. unemployment rate crept back up to 9% last week, but some cities are feeli...
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July 6, 2011 No Comments
Berkshire’s Charles Munger: Housing Bubble Caused By ‘Megalomania, Insanity, And Evil’
-Huffington Post Charles Munger, the always-quotable vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, wasn’t ...
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July 5, 2011 No Comments
Banks stand to benefit from higher interest rates: S&P
-Housingwire Investors may fret rising interest rates when the government tightens its monetary pol...
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June 27, 2011 No Comments
The Post-Foreclosure Wait
-New York Times Mortgage troubles won’t necessarily shut you out of the housing market forever. ...
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June 27, 2011 No Comments
Bernanke says home price stabilization necessary to woo buyers
-Housingwire Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said home price stabilization and a faster forec...
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June 22, 2011 No Comments
Dollar Weakens as Stocks Advance Before Federal Reserve Meeting
-Bloomberg The dollar fell against the majority of its most-traded counterparts as stocks and commo...
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June 21, 2011 No Comments
Fed Holds Economy Hostage
-GoldSeek The Fed is holding the US economy hostage. And it’s time for a prisoner snatch. It wa...
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June 21, 2011 1 Comment
