The Recovery Has Reversed Course – Welcome to the Revocery

Welcome to the Recovery! How To Buy Gold How to Buy Silver Real Estate News The recovery that started in 2009 and never really progressed has reversed. The recovery is over. Welcome to the Revocery. QE- Recovery Medicine or Extension of Bailonomics? The current recovery was artificially born in 2009 from the ashes of the Read More →

The Recovery is Worse Than the Recession

The Recovery is Worse Than The Recession How To Buy Gold How to Buy Silver “A bad peace is even worse than war” – Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Senator and Historian We wrote here over the past several months that the air would soon start coming out of the housing bubblet. We noted that the Read More →

Interest Rates Matter

Interest Rates Matter “Consumers have taken the interest rate rise in stride. Expectations for continued improvement in housing persist, and sentiment toward the current buying and selling environment is back on track from its dip last month” Doug Duncan, senior vice president and chief economist at Fannie Mae. Interest rates, like deficits, matter. No amount Read More →

Can the Housing Recovery Continue?

Can the Housing Recovery Continue? Real Estate News Who Will Buy the Houses to Sustain the Real Estate Market? The current real estate recovery is characterized by higher home prices driven by low inventory and high demand relative to the existing inventory. The demand is driven by Fed induced low interest rates that has invited Read More →

The Dark Side of Rising Home Prices

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The Dark Side of Rising Home Prices What’s Wrong With Higher Home Prices? The Real Estate Industry and Media Tout Rising Home Prices as a Good Thing, But Are They? Real Estate News I guess I don’t buy your premise, its a pretty unlikely possibility, we have never had a decline in housing prices on Read More →

How to Spot an Economic Recovery Addict

Economic Recovery Addicts Since the beginning of the Great Recession, dating back to the “green shoots” days of early 2009 and recovery summer of 2010, there has been a crowd of analysts, journalists and pundits searching for signs of an economic recovery. One group of analysts sifts through the data and determines most of it Read More →

You Can’t Get There From Here – Straining to Regain Real Estate’s Promised Land

You Can’t Get There From Here Real Estate News “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost As the real estate market gained steam earlier this year, a common anti bubble meme emerged- “this ain’t no bubble, home prices Read More →

…as the Band Played on, the Crowd Called For an Encore

The Economic and Real Estate Recovery is Based On QE “You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of reality” – Ayn Rand It’s raining horrible economic news, yet the real estate and stock markets are staying dry and heading higher. It has been nearly five years since the financial crisis of 2008. Read More →