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New Commercial Real Estate Lending Index Introduced

by Jay HammondMay 18, 2009 Commercial real estate

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!“Commercial Real Estate lending conditions will likely deteriorate further after a sharp drop in the first quarter of 2009, creating both new opportunities and challenges for community banks,” said Chris Nichols, CEO of Banc Investment Group the capital markets [...]

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The Blame Game Part V: Transparency

by Jay HammondApril 21, 2009 Bailout

“Stimulus funds need to be infused into the economy as quickly and efficiently as possible in order to stimulate growth,” said David Williams, leader of Deloitte’s Financial Advisory Services practice. “However, the legislative process as well as the public’s desire for transparency surrounding how stimulus funds are allocated do not bode well for getting stimulus [...]

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Home builder confidence up as housing starts fall off a cliff

by Constantine von HoffmanApril 16, 2009 Bailout
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A brilliant and simple guide to how we are being lied to about the meltdown

by Constantine von HoffmanApril 7, 2009 Bailout

There has been a deliberately high signal-to-noise-ratio (”the ratio of a signal power to the noise power corrupting the signal“) around the financial fiasco. The reason for this is the same reason that a magician does patter — to divert your attention from the sleight-of-hand.
We have heard long explanations about how no one could have [...]

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Don’t Forget Commercial Real Estate Problems

by phillenbrandApril 1, 2009 Bailout

I’m starting to wonder if the general public is getting used to the idea of being in crisis mode all the time. Health Care is in a crisis, there’s a crisis in retail, consumer spending, automakers, everywhere seems to be heading straight to the dumper. Even amidst signs of a recovery, there are areas we [...]

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Spike in existing home sales mostly fueled by foreclosures

by Constantine von HoffmanMarch 23, 2009 Bailout

The nearly 500-point dead-cat-bounce on Wall Street yesterday was credited in part to the reported increase in existing home sales. The headline about homes: resales rose 5.1% to a 4.72 million annual rate from 4.49 million in January, via the National Association of Realtors.
The devil rested in the details which showed that 45% of that [...]

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Cramer defends CNBC’s role in Wall Street bubble

by MorganMarch 19, 2009 Wall Street

Cramer got reamed by Jon Stewart over CNBC’s cheer leading of the Wall Street bubble last week, today he defended himself on the Today show.
The Today Show defense:

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Signs of A Recovery, But Can You Get a Mortgage?

by MorganMarch 18, 2009 Economy

Finally, after months of doom and gloom and the sky is falling, we’re starting to entertain the idea that somewhere, at some point, the economy will begin to recover. The impact of last year’s debacle will continue to show in our brokerage statements and home appraisals, but at the very least if things stabilize we’ll [...]

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Who Do You Trust?

by phillenbrandMarch 11, 2009 Bailout

Amidst the economic turmoil, plummeting housing prices, and rising unemployment, consumers have lost their trust in an awful lot of things. While we’ve always had a healthy distrust for the workings of corporate America, Washington, and Wall Street, it has been sometime since we’ve seen confidence in “the system” fall to these levels. Bank CEOs [...]

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