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The Producer Price Index is a business inflation meter and it's now up 9.8 percent annually. This is a huge number for PPI and represents the highest year-over-year rate of inflation since 1981. Normally, blowout inflation like this would be terrible for mortgage rates but mortgage markets are ac...
08/20/2008
I was just watching a update on the woes of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae...the losses they are sustaining and all you can say is....it is going to get worse before it gets better.  Anyway that is the way it looks and the stock market, housing market and GNP are all going to take hits. I looked at i...
08/20/2008
Hello Friends! Great day for mortgage backed securities and an improvement in mortgage rates. Right now as I type, mortgage backed securities have improved in price by as much as 72 basis points. What does that mean? Yesterday the $400,000 loan you locked in costs about $2800 less in fee today th...
08/20/2008
Hi All, Don'tcha just love the English language and all the colorful ways folks use it?  Boy, I sure do, and I am especially enamored of the way that some folks truly believe that by merely speaking the words they can "wish" things into being.  I always knew "Abracadabra" was a magic word that co...
08/20/2008
No, I am not talking about NASCAR...   I am talking about the fact that in real estate, the further away from a metropolitan area you drive, the lower the prices typically are. Builders would have the same homes in different communities for sale, and the further out the subdivisions were, the low...
08/20/2008
No, I am not talking about NASCAR...   I am talking about the fact that in real estate, the further away from a metropolitan area you drive, the lower the prices typically are. Builders would have the same homes in different communities for sale, and the further out the subdivisions were, the low...
08/20/2008
  Disclaimer:  All examples used in this are fictional. Any resemblance to you is coincidental. The purpose of this is to inform not insult! 1) Leave the lawn, after all its the house they are buying.  No need to pick up all those little presents Fido has been leaving you all over the yard eithe...
08/20/2008
It's no secret - the USA suffers from TERMINAL fiscal cancer.  Our current debt, today, is more than $9.5 TRILLION.  THE US GOVERNMENT BORROWS .22 of every dollar it spends.  We consume more than we produce.  The state of the Union is NOT GOOD - our trade deficit is TOO LARGE, and the US is BROK...
08/20/2008
There have been several posts and articles about troubled banks and federal regulators increasing staff to manange upcoming failures. The last three banks to be closed were smaller banks that had evidently suffered liquidity problems from commercial real estate. Jim Crawford, of Atlanta, wrote ab...
08/19/2008
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  It takes a lot of work to untrain a dog and to untrain a buyer, but we must do it. Buyers hear buyers market, rising foreclosures and distressed sales and you can see the ratio of offer price to list price dropping before your eyes. With most of my business bank listings and shortsale listings ...
08/19/2008
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