How Will Home Boom End? (Reg Req’d)
Does a falling unemployment rate really tell us what we think it does about the jobs market? Co-bloggers Max Sawicky and Tom Walker debate David Altig on labor-force participation.
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Self-Help Housing Loan program puts needy families into homes The United States Department of Agriculture's Mutual Self-Help Housing Loan program is used primarily to help very low- and low-income households construct their own homes.read more...
Beware Shenanigans In Settlement Fees A financial settlement between the federal government and one of the country's best-known real estate brokerage firms offers home buyers insights into the under-the-table games that might be played
Aldar, NBAD mortgage tie-up (AME Info) Abu Dhabi-based developer Aldar Properties has signed up the National Bank of Abu Dhabi to offer mortgage finance to buyers of its property. The bank will structure individual finance packages
Bernanke assures Hill on mortgage hit (AP via Yahoo! News) Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Thursday the credit crisis has created "significant market stress" and offered fresh assurances that regulators would take steps to curb fallout related
Tech stocks make a strong comeback "A lot of the managers who are managing these tech funds today weren't even around during the boom and bust." Investors are betting that even if the economy slows,
Many folks caught in a web of overspending You remember the poem by Mary Howitt that starts: "Will you walk into my parlor?" said the spider to the fly.Commentread more...