“Dad, I’ve got a good tenant in there. Besides, it’s not in very good shape. I’d rather sell it than invest more money in it. And there are so many places on the market, I can rent something better…
November 11th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "houses"
Sometimes Technical Analysis Sounds Like a Foreign Language
Your editor does not pick up foreign languages easily. But just for grins, we asked Gabriel to try his technical speak on the CRB commodities index. It’s been up, then way down, then back up. We wondered-all the fundamentals of supply, demand, growth, and recession aside-what the index looks like to trader with an eye for patterns and mind full of oscillators.
August 5th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 22 comments | Continued
Investors Are Thinking: Inflation is Coming, But it Isn’t Here Yet
At least…that’s been our worry. That too many people understand the inflation threat and are positioning themselves to avoid it. Everybody can’t be right. As they say on Wall Street, when everyone is thinking the same thing no one is thinking.
July 29th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 19 comments | Continued
Monetary Inflation the Old-fashioned Way!
All of our economic problems are caused by the Federal Reserve creating the excess of money and credit that produced the bubbles in stocks, bonds, houses and size of government, but doesn’t have to be electronic money made from electronic credit.
May 5th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 1 comment | Continued
Prisoners of the House
It was a wet day. A drizzle came down…making the logs slippery and hard to handle. We picked up only the light wood…we’d come back later with the log splitter for the heavy pieces. After several trips, we had loaded up all the wood we could pick up. Then, we attached the log splitter.
March 12th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
We Are All Turkeys, Waiting for the Axe
Ben Bernanke would describe the turkey’s life – with no setbacks – as the product of a “great moderation.” Turkey stockbrokers would assure their clients that nothing had ever gone wrong in the turkey’s life…
November 27th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Aussie Housing Market Actually Leads the U.S. by Three Years
There as an interesting contrast of positions on the state of the Australian housing market over the last few days. First, RBA Deputy Governor Ric Battellino gave a speech in Sydney earlier this week in which he gave three reasons why the Australian housing market is different than the U.S. market. Don’t worry about a crash here, he seemed to be saying. Battellino says the Aussie housing market…
October 31st, 2008 | Dan Denning | 17 comments | Continued
Abandoned Shopping Malls to Follow Abandoned Houses
Last week, we saw a report telling us that vacancies in retail space were increasing. The United States has ten times more retail space per person than France. When people spend less, much of this space will cease to be commercially viable…
July 10th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 7 comments | Continued
Your Houses will be Worth Less than the Value of Your Mortgage Loans
households will be “upside down,” meaning, their houses will be worth less than the value of their mortgage loans. Almost half of the people who took out subprime loans over the last two years have no equity in their houses, says Bloomberg.
February 15th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued