Public debt, a real threat
Greek bankers do not appear to share the fears expressed by the media about the excessive debts of companies or households.
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Median home price: $714,250 Santa Clara County's sizzling housing market cooled a little bit last month, but the median price of a single-family home jumped to a record of $714,250, bucking speculation of a
Economic gain from building lasts years Carpenters working for Spinell Homes put floor joists on a residential home under construction in south Anchorage.read more...
Roland Arnall, Mortgage Innovator, Dies at 68 (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance) Mr. Arnall founded Ameriquest Mortgage, a company once billed as a sponsor of the American dream but later found itself at the center of the subprime mortgage crisis.read more...
Competing - green' standards for housing Two small-business owners in the homebuilding and remodeling industry recently became the Ocean State's first Certified Green Professionals - a designation created as part of a push to develop new
'Enhanced' index funds: An oxymoron that rarely works Trading Shots If rates don't kill the housing boom, what might? Plus, how to hedge the bubble.via
For some homebuyers, mortgage market woes hit home (The Journal News) As mortgage companies are shaken by changes in the credit markets this summer, some homebuyers in the Lower Hudson Valley are facing rude and sometimes painful surprises.read more...