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Confusions Abound

January 24, 2012

Confusions abound. This is the middle of an intense, partisan, and important election cycle and confusion, deliberate or otherwise, is abundant. This is a moment when we need clarity, and voters are being asked to decide on issues that derive from arcane and often very obscure roots. Politicians have a bad habit of trying to […]

Economics / bankruptcy, consumer confidence, consumption, creditors, GDP, home prices, Minsky, real estate, recession, recovery /

Bleak Housing; Brighter Debt

January 20, 2012

Today’s slightly upbeat report does nothing to mask real estate’s rotten 2010. For the record: sales of existing homes rose 5% in December hitting an annual rate of 4.61 million homes. Part of the increase is accounted for by the revision down of November’s numbers and the rest by the extraordinarily low mortgage rates and […]

Commentary, Politics / banking, Romney, taxes /

Romney and His Taxes

January 19, 2012

This is a quiet day. Except for Mitt Romney and his charge to the Republican nomination. A furor has broken out over Romney’s tax rate. He, like many very wealthy Americans, lives in a different tax code from the rest of us. Up there in the higher reaches of the income atmosphere tax rates are […]