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Economics / banking, commercial real estate, home prices, real estate /

Real Estate Double Whammy

February 23, 2010

To add to today’s gloom is the Case-Schiller report on home prices, which fell in 0.2% December. While that decline is much smaller than those of the months back in the depth of the crisis, it represents a give-back of the strengthening we had seen at the end of last summer. It confirms the thought […]

Economics / consumer confidence, consumption, recovery, wages /

Sentiment Turns Ugly

February 23, 2010

There is no way to spin today’s consumer confidence report and make it glow. It is flat out rotten. Just a month after turning up nicely and leading us all to believe consumers had started to feel a little better, the bottom fell out. The Conference Board survey usually bounces around with a score in […]

Economics / deficits, Federal Budget, Medicare, Reagan, social programs, Social Security /

What Do The GOP Want?

February 22, 2010

No sooner do I finish my earlier post than I read Paul Krugman’s take on the Republican position on the budget. I think he nails it. The issue seems simple: having bashed away at government for the best part of three decades the GOP is now reaching the point of no return: the federal deficit […]

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