Category Archives: economy

Honest Mistakes, 20/20 Hindsight, No Surprises, Real Innovation and Double Dip ‘Psycho-Semantics’

Haven’t been permeating self promotion through the typical social mediums very much lately, but I have been sporadically writing/blogging/’content creating’ over at HousingWatch.  So, for the 4 people who’ve asked me if I still type my opinions into a keyboard…
John Paulson was an interesting figure in the whole SEC vs Goldman Sachs stink-eye contest, which ultimately [...]

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Estrogen Infused Markets Equals Unpredictable Mortgage Rate Forecasting

Once upon a time there were some pretty reliable indicators when it came to forecasting the near future trends of mortgage rates.  Non-farm payroll, unemployment, housing starts, the Consumer Price Index and other such macro view reports we’re accurate arrows in a mortgage professionals quiver when it came to ‘predicting’ mortgage rate movements.  Stocks, their [...]

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How to Short The US Housing Market and Throw an Economy Into a Recession

I’ve been writing a bit over at Housingwatch about the recent news surrounding reasons behind housing market crash, viewed through the 20/20 lenses we all posses.  The good folks at AOL like to keep posts around 500 words to keep things tight and to the point.  So, I’ll bring some of the words I couldn’t [...]

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Contrived Attrition? Washingtons Play in The Fall and Rise of Wall Street

Many pundits speak about these turbulent times as a recession, depression or somewhere in between.  I personally like to view the glass half full and pronounce this time in our economy’s history as an epic correction.  Times of unprecedented growth are almost assuredly followed by times of unprecedented ’shrinkage’…you know, markets are cyclical in nature, [...]

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