Aug 30 2010

How we lost 1.3 million households from 2008 to 2009. New Census figures show a large decrease in U.S. household count.

Preliminary Census data is now coming out showing the effects of the recession on a macro scale.  The 2008 Census figures don’t highlight the deep capital loss that was experienced by middle class families over the last two years.  We now have data showing how deep the recession has gotten.  From 2008 to 2009 the […]

Aug 24 2010

The trillion dollar bailout you didn’t hear about – Commercial real estate values plummet again yet banks hide losses. A $3.5 trillion financial disaster in the making. We are now proud owners of an AMC theater and Chick-fil-A.

The latest data on existing home sales should tell you exactly where we are in this so called recovery.  Average Americans are unable to purchase big ticket items without massive government subsidies.  It is also the case that all the too big to fail banks are standing only because of the generous support of taxpayer […]

Aug 6 2010

Middle class in shambles – more debt, more job losses, more deceit. Banks attempt final push to break up the middle class. Housing values down by 30 percent but total household debt only down by 2 percent.

On Friday the grim reality of more job losses for Americans was plastered across headlines.  What makes this even more distressing is this is occurring during what is supposed to be a recovery.  Yet most Americans realize that there is no recovery outside of Wall Street.  If anything, things have gotten progressively worse as foreclosures […]

Jul 30 2010

40 years of housing data – U.S. homes still too expensive for typical families. In 1970 the median home could be purchased with 657 ounces of gold. Today, it only requires 155 ounces. The erosion of the U.S. dollar

The last 40 years have seen the U.S. housing market transform into a market largely driven by incredible amounts of debt.  The credit card companies understood the basic notion that the monthly payment drove most financial decisions.  Even though people purchase a home with a 30 year mortgage, the implicit understanding was that in a […]

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