economist.com - 7/3/2009
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AFTER a long winter, spring brought a touch of sunshine to American house prices. The latest Case-Shiller indices, released on June 30th, showed that prices continued to fall in April: the ten-city index was 0.7% lower than a month earlier, and the 20-city index went down by 0.6%. But these ...
VoxEU.org - 7/6/2009
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VoxEU.org —
Charles W. Calomiris , Stanley D. Longhofer ,
William Miles , 6 July 2009 Economists have expressed...
fears over the macroeconomic consequences of falling home prices dragging down consumption in the US and other nations. This column says that housing ...
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The (mythical?) housing wealth effect
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The Mess That Greenspan Made —
... Darling: Bankers will be 'brought back to earth' - Telegraph • Major nations should back dollar as key currency: Japan - Reuters • Japan's Hayashi: U.S. economy has yet to hit bottom - MarketWatch • Appraising the European Central Bank: Hard talk, soft policy - Economist • Green Power Takes Root in the Chinese Desert - NY Times • The relaunch of Gordon Brown: The vision thing - Economist HOUSING • House prices and the wealth effect - Economist • Manhattan real estate market finally craters - ...
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Mortgages Made Simpler - News Analysis - NYTimes.com
Embezzlement Leads to Bank Run in Virtual World - Cheap Talk
Uncertainty over the size of the output gap - ...
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