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Falling Home Prices in U.S. – How far?
In the fall of 2007 I spoke to a housing conference, and argued that the issue about to confront real estate in the United States was not so much the sub-prime mortgage debt crisis, though that was going to be huge. Rather, I suspected, the underlying issue is the severe mismatch between how much houses [...]
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The future of housing in this economy is on everyone’s mind. Last week the opportunity to present a keynote speech to the annual Colorado Housing Conference gave me a chance to re-visit this topic. The conference is one that focuses especially on policy related to developing affordable housing. My task was to broaden the scope [...]
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It looks now, about mid-day Pacific time on September 25 that a deal is either concluded or nearly so for Washington DC to provide the $700 billion or more in relief that Wall Street apparently needs to sustain liquidity and keep the economy going. Arguments still rage about whether this is a good idea, a [...]
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