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Regulating the regulators It's not just new regulations that we need to control the financial sector – it's better regulators and wiser economists A foreclosed house for sale in Pasadena, California. Photograph: Reed Saxon/AP The Obama administration...
Tags: Fed, housing prices, housing bubble, regulatory reform, United Kingdom, London, Ben Bernanke, Asset price inflation, Causes of the financial crisis of 2007¬タモ2009, Financial crisis of 2007¬タモ2009, Business Finance, Financial crises, Real estate bubble, Economic bubble
Despite some bad economic news over the past year, Terre Haute remained on a list of the 125 best economically performing small cities in America, according to the California-based Milken Institute. The Milken Institute annually rates American big and...
Tags: Terre Haute, Milken Institute, F.C. Tucker/Wayne Collins Realtors, small city, best performance, Texas, economically performance, housing bubble, large city, Michael Milken, Terre Haute Indiana, Indiana, Terre Haute metropolitan area, Vigo County Indiana, National Road, Labor
I do not think there could have been anything more difficult than to have been a Republican up for re-election in 2008. The party was in shambles and the Republicans were afraid of losing their seats because of the backlash against the Bush administration...
Tags: politicians, congress, term limits, pelosi, boehner, republican, democrat, frank, housing bubble, market collapse, partisanship, Re-election, Party of NO
New Cato Institute study suggest various real estate zoning regulations contributed to the housing bubble and its ensuing crash. Cato’s Randal O’Toole writes … Between 2000 and the bubble’s peak, inflation-adjusted housing prices in California and Florida...
Tags: housing bubble, urban planners, planners cause, Houston
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is fighting back against claims that his agency and his tenure as its chief caused the housing bubble that is partly blamed for the economy's descent into a recession. Greenspan, in an opinion piece published...
Tags: US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, housing bubble, reserve chairman, chairman alan, wall street, street journal
The year 2008 was horrible for real estate and, according to some experts, 2009 could be worse. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 29, prominent housing economist Ken Rosen suggested home prices could drop an additional 6% to 7% this...
Tags: housing bubble
The common perception among economists is that the current housing bubble will be a relatively short-term affair that should see a return to normal within the next few years. But according to a study by two University of Southern California
Tags: housing bubble