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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Case-Shiller, Consumer Spending and Confidence: What To Make Of Too Much Data
This morning started out for me like every last Tuesday of the month… I read Case-Shiller. Published on the last Tuesday of the month, S & P’s Case-Shiller report provides a thorough albeit backwards look into the status of the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Real Estate
Tagged California, case+shiller, Consumer confidence, consumer spending, Economics, economy, Home+prices, home+pricing, housing, Housing+sales, real+estate, Tim+Freund
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Is Real Estate’s ‘Irene’ in the Rearview Mirror or Ahead: July’s Pending Home Sale Numbers
The news wasn’t all bad… however whenever someone starts a sentence like that, you know the news isn’t very good either, so I’ll keep this brief: Pending home sales numbers as reported by the National Association of Realtors for the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Real Estate
Tagged Economics, economy, Home+prices, home+pricing, housing, Housing+sales, Pending Sales Numbers, real+estate, Tim+Freund
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Where Have You Gone Bank of America?
…our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, ooo wooo woo… (with apologies to Simon and Garfunkel)… Let me begin by saying I have been a Bank of America customer since 1973, so what follows comes from the heart and … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Real Estate
Tagged banking, Brian Moynihan, Economics, Home+prices, home+pricing, interest+rates, real+estate, refinancing, Tim+Freund
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Katrina, Lehman, Lincoln and Today
I was thinking back on when Katrina released her wrath on the city of New Orleans and the South. I distinctly remember thinking, “What? The whole city of New Orleans is under water? How can that be? Bodies are piling … Continue reading
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Tagged CNBC, Conejo+Valley, Economics, economy, Home+prices, housing, real+estate, Tim+Freund
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Some Things Are Certain In Life
As I sit here on a friend’s sun deck in Rancho Palos Verdes overlooking a foggy Pacific Ocean and the outline of Catalina, I realize that despite the chaos on Wall Street, the Euro Zone and the now empty halls … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Real Estate
Tagged Home+prices, home+pricing, housing, Housing+sales, Inflation, interest+rates, real+estate, refinancing, Tim+Freund
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‘Glad That’s Over With, Now Let’s Get Back to Business
Wow. What a couple of weeks. I like most Americans, was barely able to function as our government acted more like my children that my leaders. I haven’t blogged in a while in large part because I just couldn’t muster … Continue reading
