How to time the market
When is the best time to buy, sell or hold real estate? These charts will help you anticipate the market to maximize profit.
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Tag: financial crisis
Financial sector tests out LIBOR replacement
LIBOR’s replacement will be more reliable than the scandal-ridden LIBOR.
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What happened to the main players behind the financial crisis?
The ultimate “Where Are They Now?” — catch up with the juggernauts of the...
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Chase Settlement Too Lenient
Now you see the $13 billion, now you don’t: Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio explains why the U.S....
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Getting tough with big banks (and missing the point)
Tighter banking regulations won’t help the struggling American consumer.
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Good credit, bad credit and credit repair
In the wake of the financial crisis, hundreds of thousands of Californians saw their credit scores drop. Credit repair organizations began targeting these individuals with false promises of solvency.
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What’s Wall Street got to do with it?
Is Wall Street really the heartbeat of our real estate market? Or is it a throbbing cancer eating away at the American Dream?
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Falling incomes, falling prices
The 1% is recovering from the Great Recession just fine, but incomes for the rest are flat. How will this gross income inequality affect California real estate prices?
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What comes after foreclosure
Everyone knows about the pain experienced by a homeowner in a foreclosure or short sale. But when the dust is settled and the home is lost for good, what becomes of displaced owners?
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Stress tests for banks: The Fed ignores reality
In order to gauge the strength of the U.S. banking system, the Federal Reserve (Fed) required...
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Lessons on the Fed: Ben Bernanke’s classroom
In a course titled “Reflections on the Federal Reserve and Its Place in Today’s Economy”, Ben...
Read MoreBlame speculators for the intensity of the boom and bust
Real estate speculators are to blame for the intensity of the 2004-2006 housing bubble and subsequent financial crisis, as found in a study by the Federal Reserve of New York (New York Fed). Between 2000 and 2006, the share of...
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Unions Occupy Wall Street — where are the Realtors?
Are you one of the 99% represented by those participating in Occupy Wall Street? Yes (50%, 20...
Read More10 ways to beat the real estate crisis
This article provides tips for building your brokerage practice and creating personal wealth during real estate’s enduring bumpy plateau recovery.
Read MoreThe rise of “zombie economics”
The events that brought about the Great Recession, and the circumstances that have combined to transform that recession into an ongoing jobless Lesser Depression, are the result of widespread but erroneous beliefs about economic...
Read MoreRentiers and debtors: why can’t they get along?
Current U.S. financial policy sustains an unbridgeable gap between the demands of those who owe and those who are owed. This article explains why things didn’t have to be this way.
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The rocky roads: recession and financial crisis
This article explains the difference between a recession and a financial crisis, and the different effects each has on the California real estate market.
Read MoreWhat the rentiers got from working stiffs
Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs (Goldman) disputes a U.S. Senate report which named it a major contributor to the financial crisis. The report, released by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (the subcommittee),...
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Deflation’s push on the real estate recovery
This article explains the current deflation created by the interplay between the Federal Reserve and mortgage lenders, and how it affects the homeowners and agents scrabbling in its wake.
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