Housing Bubble

Last Monday's Four Corners program has Steve Johnson back on the debt-binge bandwagon. Don't read on if you don't like to worry. The question is not if, but when, this... it's disturbing (if a little sensationalist). It is a fact that we're in the midst[...]

The United States housing bubble is the economic bubble in many parts of the U.S. housing market that began roughly in 2001, especially in populous areas such as California, Florida, New York, Michigan , the suburbs of Chicago in the Midwest, the BosWash[...]

Is Japan's bubble, land price / housing slump, credit crisis and long deflation in the 90s a reminder of things to come in the US ? Opinion piece her...

Is Japan's bubble, land price / housing slump, credit crisis and long deflation in the 90s a reminder of things to come in the US ? Opinion piece here... So, really, what are the odds of the U.S. sliding into a Japan-like funk? While not great,... Read[...]

As many people predicted, Americans really did spend less this past Holiday Season and now mortgage rates are falling because of it. Weak receipts in December capped off a year in which consumer spending posted its slowest year-over-year growth since...[...]

Since holding its first Mass in 1846, the church of Saint Mary Star of the Sea has been helping people in the far outpost of the Lower Keys. Its nuns treated patients with yellow fever in the 1870s, victims of the USS Maine explosion in Havana Harbor[...]

Data through October 2007 for the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices fell 6.1% year over year, showing broadbased declines in the prices of existing single family homes across the United States. This marks the 10th consecutive month of negative annual returns,[...]

Wolfgang contemplates (but rejects) the possibilty of an inflationary escape. FT.com: Hold tight, the central banks have no plan In an environment in which central banks target a low rate of inflation, the lion’s share of the adjustment will have[...]

LONDON - The Associated Press Dave and Nicole Anderson had planned to usher in the New Year in a new, larger home - an upgrade made possible by the recent sale of their two-bedroom apartment in the Br...