August 1, 2008
Tom Vanderwell here with another Mortgage Market Week in Review...Is it just me, or do Fridays keep coming around faster and faster? Maybe it's because I'm so young! Any way, it's time for our "Mortgage Market Week in Review." We're...
Meant to weigh in on this sooner, but Google is going to launch a corporate VC fund. I've registered various times my general skittishness about such things, so I won't belabor that here, other than to say I can't imagine...
A guest post from trader, surfer and semi-pro poker player, Jeff Norman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.....Should the fed be more worried about inflation or deflation? There are compelling arguments to worry about both and your answer may depend more on where you are...
A few quick links to get people going "hmmm" on this foggy Friday (here in San Diego, anyway): Resurgent bearish macro hedge funds have people seeing next Soros (Bloomberg) Copper thieves cause delay in cancer surgery (LA Times) Live ATask...
Today GM turned in a jaw-dropping $15-billion second quarter loss. Coming on top of a $3.2-billion first quarter loss, and 2007's $38.7-billion loss, investors are naturally wondering one thing: Is GM now, like the airline industry, cumulatively unprofitable across its...
In spite of a "teaser" of a rally and stock markets holding their July 15 lows, equities were still in the red for the month of July. I have put together a table of global stock markets' performances over various measurement periods, showing a rather unpleasant message.
There was oodles of participation in the contest I held earlier today on naming the country with the largest gain in residential real estate prices since the U.S. began tumbling in January of 2006. Thanks tons for all the guesses...
