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Housing and Gasoline News December 23, 2008

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Housing News
Where’d the bailout money go?
4 Ways People Overspend During Christmas and 4 Ways to Get the Money Back
Where’d the bailout money go? $350 billion later, banks won’t say how they’re spending it
Banking on another bad year in ‘09
How bad (really) is 8% unemployment?
$700 Billion Bailout Celebrated With Lavish $800 Billion Executive Party
S.F. office [...]

Housing and Gasoline News December 22, 2008

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Housing News
Major shopping spree, $350 billion in two and a half months
Grim reality, people walking away from their mortgage
More leaving the Golden State than moving in
Street-level view of the foreclosure problem
On Wall Street, Bonuses, Not Profits, Were Real
Two Ways to Revamp U.S. Housing Policy
Bay Area home values hit 8-year low in November
Gasoline News
What’s on [...]

Housing and Gasoline News December 19, 2008

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Housing News
HUD chief calls housing aide a failure
FDIC rules to ban new banks
Bonds are stagnant on housing data
Why should we bail these homeowners again?
IRS to help homeowners sell homes or refinance
Who will bail the local and state governments out?
Gasoline News
Bush considering orderly bankruptcy for auto companies

Housing and Gasoline News December 18, 2008

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Housing News
Calpers To Report Losses of 103% on its Residential Investments
FDIC rules will ban new banks
55% of SoCal home sales were foreclosures
Fed to lend money for free
SoCal prices falling
Credit card companies rate-jack their customers
The Great Unraveling
Banks Show No Signs of Easing Credit in Step With Fed’s Rates
Gasoline News
Coal should be global warming concern
Oil [...]

Housing and Gasoline News December 17, 2008

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Housing News
Second mortgage crash coming up
When the liquidators come calling
Evidence the Fed caused the Housing Boom
The list of Bernie Madoff’s Victims
2009 recover? FDIC doesn’t think so
A visual interpretation of the financial crisis
Interest rate is near zero
Gasoline News
Oil falls on rate cut
Gas is $1.65 down my block
This is how we’re dependent on foreign oil: OPEC to [...]

Housing and Gasoline News December 16, 2008

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Housing News
Housing value in US lose $2 trillion
Argument for a few financial giant should fail
60 Minutes Blows the POA/ALT-A Loan Story
Do you know where your money is?
Deflation is inevitable
SF feels the real estate pain too
PDF - Owners are less happy than renters
Our Ponzi nation
Gasoline News
Toyota wants GM to be saved
Obama names energy team, vows new [...]

Housing and Gasoline News December 15, 2008

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

Housing News
Get ready for the perfect foreclosure storm in 09
Housing foreclosures draw protesters to Bank of America
Fighting Foreclosures, F.D.I.C. Chief Draws Fire
Bank of America to cut 35,000 jobs in 3 years
Our asset dependent economy
Gasoline News
Gas prices rose after 80 days of decline
Paying attention to gallons per mile
Chryslers’ under $3 gas deal

Housing and Gasoline News December 12, 2008

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Housing News
8 really, really scary predictions
Mortgage fraud is booming business for prosecutors
Saving not spending will halt this crisis
Walking away from jumbo prime loans
When will housing prices bottom? Not soon
Some may intentionally fall behind on payments to get help
Gasoline News
Auto bailout stuck in the Senate
Gas prices ready to bottom out?
The abcs of the auto bailout