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2014
The second biggest real estate myth is the oft repeated refrain that a lack of housing inventory has held back the real estate recovery. The biggest real estate myth, one that has also been peddled incessantly, is that there is a housing recovery in the first place. As we have stated many times o...
04/30/2014
Real Estate News Should the Stock and Real Estate Market Drive The Economy or Should it Be the Other Way Around? The purposes of quantitative easing (QE) – to raise the stock and real estate markets to create a wealth effect to “fix” the economy – are discussed. Both markets are at or near thei...
04/19/2014
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Real Estate News There is a hole in the housing bubble balloon that can’t be patched. The one (and only) undeniable feature of the current housing “recovery” has been rising home prices. That one pillar of the housing recovery is now threatened by home affordability. The Fed created false econom...
04/15/2014
Podcast 28:10-33:00 Discussion of what can throw off the Fed's plans. Russia and China have been buying enormous amounts of gold in the past few years. Both countries are making plans to reduce their reliance on the US dollar. This would have the effect of reducing demand for the dollar and causi...
04/12/2014
Last year as the price of gold declined for the first time in twelve years, we noted that physical demand for gold increased, especially from Asia and primarily China. Chinese housewives scooped up gold on the retail level and China on the national level added thousands of tons of gold to its res...
04/09/2014
