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Bubble Meter is a national housing bubble blog dedicated to tracking the continuing decline of the housing bubble throughout the USA. It is a long and slow decline. Housing prices were simply unsustainable. National housing bubble coverage. Please join in the discussion.
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The best way to get the housing market thriving again is to drop prices to the point where supply equals demand. Home sellers might not like it, but it's good for buyers and it's great for Realtors.
For Realtors, the best way to make more money is to sell houses quickly, and the best way to sell houses quickly is to convince the seller to drop the price.
For Realtors, the best way to make more money is to sell houses quickly, and the best way to sell houses quickly is to convince the seller to drop the price.
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- Let home prices fall
- Renters support Obama over McCain by 5-to-2
- Homeowners unrealistic about home prices
- Happy Halloween!
- Bits bucket for Friday, October 31
- The Washington, D.C. economy
- Housing bubble cheerleaders endorse Gerry Connolly...
- Irresponsible homeowners to get bailout
- Bits bucket for Thursday, October 30
- Gas prices hit 3-year low yesterday
- September new home sales down 33% year over year
- McMansion Watch: Bank-owned McMansion
- Bits bucket for Wednesday, October 29
- S&P/Case-Shiller 20-City Home Price Index down 16....
- 2½ million troubled homeowners avoid foreclosure d...
- Laffer: The age of prosperity is over
- Government in kitchen sink mode to rescue economy
- Bits bucket for Tuesday, October 28
- Helicopter Ben makes good on nickname
- Housing sales up year-over-year; prices down
- Flashback 2005: No bubble in San Diego
- Bits bucket for Monday, October 27
- High gas prices hurting gang-bangers
- Underwater mortgages threaten economy
- The woe of housing economists
- Bubble Sphere Roundup
- Q3 2008 foreclosure filings surge 71% YoY
- Roubini predicts 2-year recession
- Bits bucket for Friday, October 24
- Buffett stocks on sale
- Lawrence Yun's house
- Bits bucket for Thursday, October 23
- S&P's recession forecast
- McMansion Watch: N.W. Loudoun County, Virginia
- Deregulation didn't cause the financial crisis
- Bits bucket for Wednesday, October 22
- Bill Gross on the financial crisis
- Anna Schwartz criticizes Greenspan & Bernanke
- Investing advice from Uncle Bob
- How bad will the recession be?
- Bits bucket for Tuesday, October 21
- Homes are selling in Prince William County, Virginia
- Warren Buffett says buy stocks now
- No housing bottom anytime soon
- Housing starts continue to decline
- Bits bucket for Monday, October 20
- Bernanke: Gov't couldn't prevent collapse of Lehman
- Poole: Treasury has no authority to coerce banks
- How the bank equity injection occurred
- Bank Telethon
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- Flashback 2006: Realtor Marlene Goldberg said no b...
- Live real estate discussion today at 1:00 PM EDT
- Government: All we need to save the economy is abs...
- Washington DC metro area home prices
- Bits bucket for Friday, October 17
- Foreclosure auctions getting few buyers
- Home builders lack confidence
- Mortgage rates predicted to rise to 7%
- The effect of lower oil prices on future oil explo...
- As housing market falls, property taxes unlikely t...
- Bits bucket for Thursday, October 16
- Suggestion box
- AP: Oil was just another bubble
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- Flashback 2006: Housing market "taking a short break"
- Details on the banking equity injection
- Paul Krugman wins Nobel Prize
- U.S. House Prices, 1975-2008
- Warren Buffett wisdom
- More home buyers backing out of deals
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- The market is falling! Hurrah!
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- Flashback 2005: "Little evidence of a housing bubble"
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- The mortgage problems are contained. Trust me.
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- National Debt Clock Cannot Contain All the Debt
- IMF: Major downturn ahead
- 16% of homeowners are underwater
- British bank bailout; Nikkei plunges; Global rate cut
- Citigroup slashing mortgage business
- Stocks in worst yearly slump since Great Depression
- WSJ: The hearings congressmen want to forget
- Flashback 1999
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- Saturday Night Live's take on the bailout
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Wait a minute!!!
ReplyDeleteI absolutely agree. Once it is clear that your stuff is worth squat, and I am afraid to lend to you, a change of accounting is not going to change that unless it changes your cash flow (tax shield maybe), which won't be by much.
I agree and disagree. Here's why: The current crisis would of been delayed, and possibly worse, if the mark-to-market wasn't in effect. So it would of happened latter and may of been worse.
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