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Robert Folsom
3/13/2008 2:30:00 PM
Once upon a time, the U.S. government created the secondary mortgage market. (During FDR's New Deal, if you're dying to know). With help from the agency known as Fannie Mae, this government creation grew tall and strong. What's more, the government held a virtual monopoly over its creation for several decades -- and after all, the market was its creation....
Filed Under:
credit crunch, Freddie Mac, government bonds, great depression, Real Estate, real-estate, recession, subprime, subprime mortgage, subprime mortgages, Wall Street
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Economy
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Alan Hall
8/13/2007 2:45:00 PM
Stock markets closed lower today, Monday, August 13, 2007
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real-estate, conquer the crash, banking
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Economy
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Alan Hall
8/1/2007 4:40:00 PM
Aircraft disasters are examined in minute detail. When a cause is found, investigators seek causes of the cause as they work back through the "event cascade" that initiated the crash. We do this same after-the-fact investigation of financial crashes and social events like wars, ostensibly in an effort to learn from our mistakes. Generally speaking, we humans do better at understanding the airplane crashes.
Filed Under:
subprime, housing, real-estate, Market Watch, Economy, Freddie Mae
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Cultural Trends
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Alan Hall
12/5/2006 11:40:00 AM
The housing market is beginning to resemble a watermelon I once floated in a pond overnight to cool. The next day a small hole was in one end and the red interior was completely gone, hollowed out to the sour green rind, sculpted by little teeth. Some muskrat had a feast.
Filed Under:
Real Estate, housing, real-estate, Economy, conquer the crash, credit crunch, personal finance
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Real Estate
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Alan Hall
11/21/2006 12:45:00 PM
I write from the catbird seat here at EWI, with access to the best technical market analysis in the world. In the space of an hour I can read forecasts of commodities, currencies, stocks, metals, and interest rates, and compare them to socionomic observations of news and events. Nowhere else can you grab such a broad, detailed snapshot of the clockworks of the “engine of history.” Today’s digital snapshot is a family photo of a resurging financial mania.
Filed Under:
Real Estate, housing, real-estate, Economy, banking, credit crunch, personal finance, Wall St., socionomics, debt
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Cultural Trends
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Alan Hall
10/17/2006 12:50:00 PM
People tend to associate predictions with events, not processes. Because our culture-at-large encourages brief attention spans, it's confusing to be carried along in a long, unfolding process. If it happens slowly, it is much easier to deny. That is, unless you have lost your job, or house, or both.
Filed Under:
housing, real-estate, Economy, credit crunch, personal finance, inflation, debt
Category:
Economy
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