The Housing Bubble Blog

Examining the home price boom and its effect on owners, lenders, regulators, realtors and the economy as a whole.

A Possibility That You Are Going To Lose Everything

It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Greenwich homeowners, saddled with the worst sales climate in 30 years, are turning to the rental market. The number of single-family properties for rent in this suburb an hour outside Manhattan climbed more than six-fold this year as sales fell by...
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Whither Megabank, Inc?

by Professor Bear Should too-big-to-fail banks get special protection in the form of a free (government-provided) ad hoc bailout insurance against failure? Should a banker's bonus be guaranteed, even if the bank he serves has lost tens or hundreds of billions of dollars? Does the banking system...
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Doing The Right Thing?

by NYCityBoy This is the latest in the series of the “Regular Guy” interviews. This is my attempt to hear from people in a way that the MSM would never allow. We talk about FBs all the time. Most of the time, we talk about them with laughter and ridicule. I do not claim to be above that fray. But I...
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In The Suburbs

by the Mysterious Flying MisoR™ From the Reason Foundation, October 2001: Older Suburbs: Crabgrass Slums or New Urban Frontier? “Since the 1950s, suburbia has represented middle-class success and the fulfillment of the ‘American Dream.’ More than three-quarters of America’s new population growth...
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A Decision Executed Behind Closed Doors

A guest post by Under Fed: Before Alan Greenspan assumed the position back in 1987, most Americans likely had little inkling about who the Federal Reserve Chairman was or what he did. The Black Monday US stock market crash on October 19, 1987 permanently altered this comfortable obscurity, when...
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Without Greed, There's More Than Enough To Go Around

It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "When Harvey Clavon took out an exotic mortgage to refinance his home in Santa Clarita, Calif., three years ago, he thought he knew what he was doing. He planned to sell the home before the mortgage reset. Because Mr. Clavon made only minimum...
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It’s China’s Turn To Play

The opinions expressed in this article are ahansen’s, and do not necessarily reflect those of the owner, administration, or readership of thehousingbubbleblog.com. “Shadow Inventory” May Not Be So Shadowy After All…. I recently spoke with a dear friend in Singapore. An international arbiter by...
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