Ireland

As I have mentioned in previous posts, the housing bubble was an international phenomenon. As a result, the U.S. subprime meltdown is indeed spreading beyond this limited sector. In the US, expect Alt-A and prime mortgages to feel the…

While we all expected house prices to slow and even fall in bubble markets like Ireland, the UK and Spain, it comes as news to me that prices are slowing in Germany as well. I was just in Germany this past month, and while there were…

I have been in Europe for a while and am back at blogging after a two-week hiatus. This morning I was listening to "Wake Up To Money," a British finance show that one can hear via podcast. The gist of the discussion was that the UK…