Housing

From Bloomberg: Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said the U.S. should consider “full nationalization” of the mortgage- finance system as the Obama administration plots the revival…

While the US and the UK are contemplating double dip, the export oriented economy in Sweden seems to be doing quite well.

A post by Annaly Capital Management from last night. Connecting two data events from the last 24 hours serves as a reminder to policy makers that if they really want to improve the housing finance system in the United States they should…

By John Lounsbury. Really?  Yes, that is exactly what some economists are saying.  According to Lisa Swerzer for SmartMoney, in an article at MSN Money, this view is held by severa; presumably impartial people.  The people…

By John Mauldin. "... has been brought about by policies which the majority of economists recommended and even urged governments to pursue. We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess…

by Edward Hugh According to Ralph Atkins, writing in the Financial Times: "Eurozone mortgage borrowing grew last month at the fastest pace in almost two years in a sign that bank lending across the 16-country region may be flickering…

Karl Case, an economics professor at Wellesley College and co-creator of the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, discusses the U.S. housing market with Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt. The S&P/Case-Shiller index of property values…

In a note to investors today, a well-regarded strategist on the equity sales desk at a major sell side firm put up the following two Bloomberg charts next to each other. The two charts reflect different time frames but are from related…

A personal note of reflection from Mike Farrell, CEO of Annaly Capital Management. It had been a long time between vacations. Credit crunch, lending implosion, sovereign credits going into default, currency devaluations, government…

Goldman Sachs (GS) and the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) have announced a settlement of the suit over the Abacus security case which was a civil action charging fraud by Goldman. According to the SEC announcement, which I watched…