Here’s my favorite one and a link to the rest.

How do you make housing decisions right now?

Sunday links: latest on Greece, jobs, blogging, Wall St lies

I saw this picture on Barry Ritholtz’s blog and loved it. It was ‘via The Atlantic’ so I went and read the back story by The Atlantic’s political writer Conor Friedersdorf about how he originated the sign’s text. It’s a great read about how this went from Conor’s brain in NorCal (where I live) to [...]

By now most have seen Dylan Ratigan’s epic rant on America’s political paralysis. If not, see video below. And more important than the clip is his follow up on The Big Picture blog run by money manager Barry Ritholtz, where Ratigan is equally direct but more inspiring about the direction of our country. Here it [...]

Lots of great links today, including one on the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s early priorities. To which I’ll lead in which this excerpt from Rob: “Phil Hall wrote ‘Next week is the premiere of two highly anticipated endeavors: the Hollywood blockbuster ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). One of [...]

Rates are amazing because economic news is terrible. Today’s links explore just how terrible. Plus there’s a bTunes dedication to loan agents battling rebate recapture. So click play on James Brown’s The Big Payback and read up. – Is Residential Real Estate Worse Than Depression (Ritholtz) – Will U.S. Repeat Monetary/Fiscal Mistakes of 1937? (Krugman [...]

Awhile back I wrote that if Barry Ritholtz was a rapper, he’d be Gift of Gab from Blackalicious. His retort was that he’s all 3 Beastie Boys. I can dig that: the dude’s “got more stories than JD’s got Salinger.” So kicking off today with an inflation story originated on his blog—context for today’s PPI [...]

This great home price chart from VisualizingEconomics (via Barry Ritholtz) speaks for itself, but below chart is a description from VisualizingEconomics clarifying whether a home seller should be looking at inflation adjusted (real) versus not inflation adjusted (nominal) prices. Click for full size. A $10,000 house in 1890 would be worth almost the same in [...]

The National Association of Realtors reported today that existing homes sales were up 2.7% in January and up 5.3% from a year ago. Investors bought 23% of existing single family homes, condos, townhouses, and co-ops in January, and 32% of all existing home sales transactions were completed with all cash. NAR said the median existing [...]