Should The Stock and Real Estate Markets Drive The Economy?

Should Real Estate Drive the Economy? Buy Physical Silver Online Real Estate News Podcast Summary: 0:00-4:40 Introduction Real Estate News Should the Stock and Real Estate Market Drive The Economy or Should it Be the Other Way Around? 4:40-6:00 The purposes of quantitative easing (QE) – to raise the stock and real estate markets to Read More →

The Housing Recovery that Never Was Is Over

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The Housing Recovery is Over Real Estate News The housing recovery has been limited to rising prices as existing home and new home sales remained depressed. Is the home price recovery coming to an end? There is a hole in the housing bubble balloon that can’t be patched. The one (and only) undeniable feature of Read More →

Who Will Buy the Homes to Support The Housing Recovery?

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Who is Buying Homes? With investors leaving the housing market, which group will be able to buy houses to sustain rising home prices. Real Estate News Bloomberg recently reported that Blackstone has cut its home buying binge* by 70% as home prices and mortgage rates have surged. The article also noted that American Homes 4 Read More →

The Housing Recovery & the Law of Small Numbers

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The Housing Recovery And The Law of Small Numbers. The housing recovery is not as big as the press makes it out to be. Any gains are coming off historically low numbers. Check out the Smaulgld Gold Buying Guide Check out the Smaulgld Silver Buying Guide Real Estate News The Housing Recovery and the Law Read More →

Housing Recovery? : Mortgage Applications Drop to 20 Year Low

Mortgage Applications at a Twenty Year Low Buy Physical Silver Online Real Estate News Podcast Summary 0:00-5:35 – Intro Mortgage Applications Down & Mortgage Department Layoffs and the Media Myth of a Housing Recovery 5:35:11:37 Discussion of the Fed and their view of the weather and its impact on the economy. Discussion of the banks Read More →

Why the Housing “Recovery” is a Farce – Illustrated by Two Charts

The Housing Recovery is a Farce Home sales and new home construction are down. Home sales to first time home buyers are at historic lows, yet many believe there is a housing recovery. The charts tell a different story. Buy Physical Silver Online Real Estate News Since the start of Smaulgld.com we have been covering Read More →

How a Stock Market Crash Will End the Economic Recovery

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What Happens When the Stock Market Crashes? The stock market is holding up the economic recovery. A crash will end it. Real Estate News “Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.” – Nagarjuna, Indian Buddhist Philosopher A Stock Market Crash Would End the Housing and Economic Recovery The Read More →

The False Housing Recovery of 2013 and How it Unraveled

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The Future of The Housing Market

Real Estate News “I have seen the future and it doesn’t work“- Canadian Journalist Robert Fulford We have written often regarding the economic plight of the millennials and noted because of their precarious circumstance they will not be providing the real estate industry with a robust pipeline of home sales in the coming five to Read More →

Increase in New Home Starts and New Home Permits – A False Signal?

Low Interest Rates Send False Signal to Home Builders Are home builders receiving a false signal from artificially low interest rates causing them to build more homes than they can sell? Home Builder’s False Signal. How To Buy Gold How to Buy Silver “The entrepreneur must estimate present and future costs and future revenues and Read More →