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Rate on 30-year mortgage below 4 pct. for 2nd time

WASHINGTON (AP) — The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell below 4 percent for just the second time […]

Something Is About To Break

From http://macrostory.com site, When Dexia was nationalized I said the clock was now ticking. Counterparty risk was the new threat […]

Country exposure to Greek debt

by Prieur du Plessis, “Greek drama is now no longer confined to the literature class,” says economist Asha Bangalore of […]

Taxi Licenses Outperform Stocks, Oil and Gold

By Charles Mead, Bloomberg, The surging price of New York’s taxi medallions and their promise of steady cash flows have […]

Home Prices Under More Pressure

Home prices are highly seasonal, due to the different mix of homes that sell at different times of the year, […]

Fed Focus: Housing could be key to stronger U.S. rebound

By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For the U.S. economy, it all comes back to the housing market. A fresh […]

Chinese investment in the US creates jobs, experts say

By Zhang Yuwei (China Daily), NEW YORK – At a time when the United States is going through a slow […]

Home Prices Heading for Triple-Dip

The besieged housing market has even further to fall before home prices really hit rock bottom. According to Fiserv (FISV […]

Occupy Wall Street Hits K Street

By Ari Berman, thenation.com If you want to understand how the top 1 percent have accumulated such power in American […]

A “Spectacular Collapse”: Netflix Loses 800,000 Subscribers, Stock Plunges 35%

In 2010 Netflix CEO Reed Hastings was named Fortune Magazine’s Business Person of the Year. How quickly things change. After […]