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IN THIS ISSUE: Economy Continues to Recover, But Slowly Consumer Confidence Falls Off a Cliff Bank Lending Continues to Plunge More Really Bad News on the Housing Front Are “Option-ARMs” the Next Subprime Crisis? End of an Era for Coach Halbert Introduction Most economists and market analysts...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 4Q GDP Was Stronger Than Expected The Worst of the Housing Slump is Not Over New Home Sales Continue to Fall Overall Sales of Existing Homes Continue to Plunge Home Foreclosures Continue to Mount When Will Housing Prices Recover? Introduction Last week I discussed why many economists and...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 3Q GDP Revised Lower Than Expected Debt Ceiling Raised For Only Six Weeks Disappointing Holiday Spending in 2009 A Little Good News on the Housing Slump The Outlook For 2010 - Who Knows? Introduction We will touch on a lot of bases in this holiday issue of my weekly E-Letter. We start...
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IN THIS ISSUE: Is the US Economy Turning Around? The Housing Blues Getting Bluer Adjustable Rate Mortgage "Resets" To Soar Commercial Real Estate - The Next Shoe To Drop? Conclusions - This Can't Be Good For Stocks Introduction It's time that we had a talk about the "conventional...
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IN THIS ISSUE: The Latest Economic Reports -- Mostly Negative Latest Wall Street Journal Survey of Economists Fed's Latest "Beige Book" Outlook is Bleak Conclusions -- What To Believe? Introduction We have clients calling us every day to ask if we believe the economy and the stock markets...
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Market Mayhem & Credit Fears - What's Next? IN THIS ISSUE: 1. The Economy - The News Is Not All Bad 2. Consumer Spending Remains Firm For Now 3. Housing & Subprime - More Bad News 4. Should The Government Come To The Rescue? 5. The Fed Needs To Act On September 18 6. BCA's Latest Analysis...