The Biggest Obstacle: Record Shadow Housing Inventory, and How Obama May Have Just Popped the Consumer Spending Bubble

Tyler Durden ZeroHedge 2/9/2012

While today’s foreclosure settlement deal is by some accounts expected to help the housing market, as the foreclosure pipeline is once again unclogged, it is unclear what this will actually do for price discovery and clearing levels when one considers the already untenable shadow housing inventory, which can be summarized simply […]

US Housing Market Was Artificially Inflated By 14% In 2007-2010 NAR Reports

Tyler Durden Zero Hedge 12/21/2011

Just the headlines for now:

EXISTING U.S. HOME SALES REVISED DOWN BY 14% FROM 2007-2010 EXISTING HOME SALES REVISED DOWN BY 15% IN 2010 TO 4.19 MLN

Thank you NAR for proving what everyone knew: that the US housing market is one big lie. And next: here come the historical […]

Ironic “Scariest Chart Ever” Redux – America Will Surpass 100% Debt To GDP On Halloween

Tyler Durden ZeroHedge 10/19/2011

Earlier today we presented Bloomberg’s Chart of the Day which represented the GDP and Debt per capita on a historical and projected basis, and we hysterically, and tongue-in-cheekly, dubbed it “the scariest chart ever” because it confirmed that at some point, very soon, US Debt will surpass GDP and never look […]

Why can’t Republicans cut spending?

Bill Wilson NetRight Daily 9/13/2011

In the 2010 elections, Republicans won an historic victory — picking up 63 House seats and 6 Senate seats — predicated largely on the mandate to cut spending and borrowing in Washington, D.C.

Republicans railed against the Obama Administration’s proposal to take in more than $1 trillion in new debt […]

Rush: ‘Everything we’ve had for the last 20 years is fake’

Anthony Martin Conservative Examiner 8/3/2011

In a stunning epiphany that caught even his staunchest supporters by surprise, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh stated yesterday that “everything we’ve had for the last 20 years is fake.”

Rush proceeded to describe his own journey of denial concerning the debt and said that the recent national debate […]

The Biggest Middle Class Tax Increase In History Will Come In Five Months

Bruce Krasting Business Insider 8/2/2011

There is one aspect of the final debt deal from DC that took me by surprise. I was convinced the 2% reduction in payroll taxes would be extended through 2012. On July 12th I wrote about this and got it completely wrong. Not only did I think there would be […]

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