thetyee.ca - 10/23/2009
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housing-bubble.jpg What do the mid-recession housing boom and the Harper Conservatives' rise in the polls have in common? Answer: the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's massive sub-prime mortgage scheme that is keeping up the appearance of an economic recovery. Reading the newspapers ...
worthwhile.typepad.com - 10/20/2009
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worthwhile.typepad.com —
The National Bank has a summary ( pdf
) of some numbers comparing how the Canadian housing...
market has behaved very differently from that in the US: [W]e compare the housing market correction in Canada with the one that occurred in the United States. ...
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Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Hopefully the last post ...
calculatedriskblog.com - 10/21/2009
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calculatedriskblog.com —
Click on graph for larger image in new
window. Total housing starts were at 590 thousand (SAAR)...
in September, up 0.5% from the revised August rate, and up sharply from the all time record low in April of 479 thousand (the lowest level since the ...
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Housing Starts in September: Moving Sideways
delong.typepad.com - 10/28/2009
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Via Mark Thoma: Economist's View: Rise and Fall
of Non-Agency Securitization : This is why I have...
always thought that the argument that "Fannie and Freddie did it" is a non-starter. Two reasons: Loans owned by Fannie and Freddie ...
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Enablers of the Housing Bubble
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Amazon breaks its dot-com record price, a decade later (Bloomberg) U.S. Risks Japan-Like ‘Lost Decade’ on Stimulus Exit, Koo Says (Bloomberg) Why Canada's Housing Bubble Will Burst (Tyee) Calpers Bets $1 Billion Bush Aide Can Exploit Health Changes (Bloomberg) Rally fuelled by cheap money brings a sense of foreboding (FT)
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"The New Economy" and the Hot Canadian Housing Market
Toro's Running of the Bulls Market Blog —
... I do not often agree with the columnist Murray Dobbin, and I am not sure if I agree entirely with the conclusions in this article, but relying on a report issued by the National Bank of Canada, Dobbin argues that Canada may not be as different as America as some Canadians think. ...
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hf-implode.com 11/3/2009 — " More ammo for the housing bears here: Despite the dips in both the Case-Shiller and FHFA Home Price Indices, houses still aren't affordable based on historical price/income ratios."
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hf-implode.com 10/20/2009 — " Housing bears have been warning for months that despite a seemingly good summer, the pain would resume come the fall. This may be the first sign of that. The NAHB's builder confidence level slipped in October to a reading of 18, less than the expected 20."
When Did The US Housing Bubble Begin?
econospeak.blogspot.com 9/17/2009 — In his most recent post on "Economics and its Discontents" on economic principals (http:www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2009.09.13/706.html), David Warsh asserts that the US housing bubble occurred during 2003-06. In a thread following a post on ...
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angrybear.blogspot.com 9/22/2009 — Housing demand is being propped up by government subsidies and low mortgage rates, and the level of supply is held back by low prices. Right now, the housing market is a complicated hodgepodge of policy, foreclosures, and very weary potential ...
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