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 […]

SEC charges ex-Fannie, Freddie CEOs with fraud

Derek Kravitz Associated Press via Courier-Journal 12/16/2011

WASHINGTON — Two former CEOs at mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Friday became the highest-profile individuals to be charged in connection with the 2008 financial crisis.

In a lawsuit filed in New York, the Securities and Exchange Commission brought civil fraud charges against six former […]

Agenda 21 and the Threat in Your Backyard

Mike Brownfield The Morning Bell Heritage.org 12/5/2011

Ready to trade in your car for a bike, or maybe a subway instead? Interested in fewer choices for your home, paying more for housing, and being crammed into a denser neighborhood? You can have all this and more if radical environmentalists and “smart growth” advocates have their […]

Michelle Meyer: Home Prices Will Continue to Plunge, and 2013 Will be the Worst Year for Foreclosures in History

Joe Weisenthal Business Insider 12/3/2011

Michelle Meyer, the well-known housing analyst for BofA/ML, has some bad news: The housing crisis isn’t over.

In fact, in her 2012 outlook piece, she says it’s “far from over” and that prices still have another 7% to decline nationally.

The basic problem: There are still tons more foreclosures or […]

Obama-Soros Promote ‘Open Government’

Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media 9/22/2011

The Obama State Department and a George Soros-funded organization calling itself Global Integrity have launched an “Open Government” international initiative that should be a subject of late-night jokes.

“Here in the United States, we’ve worked to make government more open and responsive than ever before,” Obama said, as his […]

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