by Dave Kranzler | Sep 28, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Existing Home Sales were released Wednesday and the NAR’s seasonally adjusted annualized rate metric was down 1.7% from July. July was down 1.3% from June. The NAR’s SAAR metric is at its lowest rate since last August. Naturally the hurricane that hit...
by Dave Kranzler | Sep 27, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
Wash, rinse, repeat. The American public never gets tired of the destructive abuse it suffers from Wall St. The deep sub-prime mortgage market is roaring back and, with it, the nuclear bomb-laden derivatives that triggered round one of The Big Short de facto financial...
by Dave Kranzler | Sep 23, 2017 | Financial Markets, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The “crisis” quote above originated with Winston Churchill. Several U.S. politicians have referenced it since then (most recently Rahm Emanuel when he was Obama’s Chief of Staff). I’m sure the Wall Street snake-oil salesmen and economic...
by Dave Kranzler | Jun 5, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The Fed printed $2.5 trillion to prop up the mortgage market and the Government “refurbished” all of the mortgage programs it sponsors (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, VHA, USDA) in a way that positioned the Government/taxpayer as the new subprime lender of...
by Dave Kranzler | May 23, 2017 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
So much for the jump in the builder’s confidence index reported last week. The Government reported a literal plunge in new home sales in April. Not only did the seasonally manipulated adjusted annualized sales rate drop 11.4% from March, it was 6% below Wall...
