Credit Writedowns

Australian real estate values rise House and flat prices in Australia increased in value by 1.6% in the first three months of the year, according to RP Data-Rismark, helped by a scarcity of supply, lower interest rates and incentives to…

I have grown pretty frustrated with FeedBurner, the RSS Feed Service now owned by Google.  Often, my posts have not  gone out immediately. There are significant 'outages' where the service is just plain broken.  And their Feed count…

This video seems to be making the rounds. I saw it over at Calculated Risk first. The video shows new homes in Victorville, CA, just south of LA, being destroyed because it costs more for the banks to keep them up than to demolish them.…

Today I saw two blurbs about Eastern Europe which I want to pull together with a bit of added commentary about the automakers in the U.S.  The first blurb had to do with the Baltics and their probable downgrade to junk by the ratings…

Ten-year treasuries are yielding about 3.15% now, that is a significant increase from a yield of just over 2% in December. I for one, thought that Treasuries were in a bubble at 2% (See my post, "Treasurys are in a bubble" from December…

I will be on the BBC World Service at 2PM ET talking about the Chrysler bankruptcy. First will be a television interview and then a radio interview. I will post the clips if and when they become available.

Attorney Angela Somers, Senior Counsel at Allen & Overy talks about Chrysler struggling to avoid bankruptcy.  She is an expert in bankruptcy and she is sounding a lot less upbeat about a quick and painless process than Obama.  She even…

I have done my part over the past few weeks to write that I thought jobless claims signaled the potential for recovery. I started the drumbeat in late March. Here are the posts:

The first bank nationalization in German history is about to take place. At issue is Hypo Real Estate (HRE), a troubled Munich-based company that lends to commercial property developers and to build offices, hotels, roads, airports, you…

Obama has what he needs to restructure Chrysler - Telegraph President Barack Obama has what he needs to restructure Chrysler. With banks holding 70pc of Chrysler's secured debt agreeing to the US Treasury's 30 cents on the dollar offer,…