Blogs Posts on "Charts And Graphs"
Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to November 18, 2009 by Housing Doom on Nov 20, 2009The Board’s H.4.1 statistical release, "Factors Affecting Reserve Balances of Depository Institutions and Condition Statement of Federal Reserve Banks," has been modified to include information related to TALF LLC, a limited liability c...
AEI Subprime VI: Complete Annotated Transcript by Housing Doom on Nov 16, 20091:36:34 … This crisis was caused by massive government subsidies to purchase homes by people who couldn’t really afford them. So what does Congress do? They pass an $8,000 tax credit for people who can’t really afford to buy a hom...
AEI Credit Crunch II: Complete Annotated Transcript by Housing Doom on Nov 15, 20091:27:42 No, might go wrong. - Allan Meltzer Doom Transcripts: Index & Guide Almost 19 months later, Doomers may enjoy putting some of these opinions up against what actually took place. Housing Doom is pleased to present a complete unauthorized...
Phoenix Housing Recovery? Not Really by Housing Doom on Nov 13, 2009 Dr. Jay Butler of ASU’s Realty Studies has released his monthly report on the Phoenix housing market. He says he see’s "signs of recovery" in the market, but then goes on to say the market is "still bottoming out&...
Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to November 13, 2009 by Housing Doom on Nov 13, 2009UPDATE: Oops! of course the title should have read "… to November 11, 2009". I hate it when that happens Suddenly here’s another week where there’s just about no movement in foreign central bank holdings. The Fed&#...
Vampire Squid? Heck No. Think $2.6 Billion Medicinal Leech! by Housing Doom on Nov 6, 2009To that end, FHFA has informed Fannie Mae that a possible transfer of a portion of its LIHTC investments to unrelated third-party investors is consistent with FHFA’s ongoing efforts to conserve Enterprise assets and with the Enterprise’s...
How Critical Is The Home Buyer Tax Credit? by Housing Doom on Nov 4, 2009Fraud might be rampant in the program, but that didn’t stop the Senate from voting 85-2 in favor of extending the home buyer tax credit. Why is it that the Senate is so willing to extend this expensive program? Here’s an examp...
AEI Subprime VI: Lachman Presentation by Housing Doom on Nov 2, 2009Doom Transcripts: Index & Guide Housing Doom is pleased to present a sixth selection from our under-construction transcript of the American Enterprise Institute’s October 22, 2009 event "The Deflating Bubble, Part VI: The Lessons of the...
Foreign Cenbank Holdings of US Obligations Weekly Update — to October 28, 2009 by Housing Doom on Oct 30, 2009The Fed’s own MBS holdings slid by just $2.802 billion, while foreign central banks sold off a bit more MBS than that. Meanwhile, cenbanks bought a good amount of treasuries. Altogether a pretty ho-hum week on the US obligations front. This...
AEI Subprime VI: Zimmerman Presentation by Housing Doom on Oct 28, 2009Doom Transcripts: Index & Guide Housing Doom is pleased to present a second selection from our under-construction transcript of the American Enterprise Institute’s October 22, 2009 event "The Deflating Bubble, Part VI: The Lessons of th...
