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From the Case-Shiller PDF release today.Steep Declines in Home Prices Continued in April 2008 According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price IndicesNew York, June 24, 2008 - Data through April 2008, released today by Standard & Poor's…

I am running a small poll on my site on how far home prices will fall. I'd like everyone to take it to get a good sample of opinions out there. Visit my site and you'll see the poll right at the top right on the sidebar.Where are prices…

Freddie Mac has reported that 30-year fixed-rate mortgages are at an nine-month high. What this will mean for the mortgage market during these critical summer months is anyone's guess. My best guess is that, combined with tighter lending…

Industrial production and capacity utilization numbers were released by the Fed this morning. These numbers are important because production is one of five factors the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) looks at to judge…

That's what Sir Howard Davies, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England (BoE), has to say.

The U.S. Department of Labor just released the weekly report for unemployment insurance claims. Initial claims were 384,000, while continuing claims rose to 3.139 million. The 4-week average moved up to 3,099,250. This is 593,000 more…

Barry Ritholtz at the Big Picture is on to something. He has found A Perfect Recession Indicator. Since 1953, when year-over-year Non-Farm payrolls have gone negative, there has been a recession. This happened nine out of nine times for…

The U.S. economy is losing jobs fast. I will have more to say about this later, but I wanted to get out a link to Bloomberg's coverage of the 8:30 unemployment report. There's also a link to the report under the "Economic Data" section in…

John Mauldin is an economic pundit I have been following for a number of years. He not only writes a weekly newsletter that is very informative but he also has many guest writers of equal note. Yesterday, he had Michael Levitt of HCM…

Global financial institutions are deleveraging because they can't build enough equity capital any other way except by going to Asian and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, cap in hand. So, the Fed and the Bank of England (BoE) have…