Remedies for the Housing MarketA foreclosure problem or an unemployment problem?
The Obama Administration’s program to prevent foreclosures is encountering hurdles. There is new empirical evidence that it is based on an erroneous diagnosis of the problem. According to Wall Street...
View ArticleCauses of ForeclosureEasy money
The collapse of the housing bubble, with 20% to 50% reductions in home values across wide swaths of the country, has led to an extraordinary high rate of foreclosures. The federal government has...
View ArticleAbout the ‘Sharing Economy’ of Uber, Lyft and airbnb
Christopher Mims at the Wall Street Journal (subscription) says Uber, Lyft, airbnb, Instircart, Postmates, TaskRabbit and others in the so-called “sharing economy” are “remarkably efficient machines...
View ArticleWhich Online Real Estate Listing Service is “Best”?
Realtor.com sent out an email boasting that it had more listings than Zillow.com “in many major U.S. cities.” Only three “major” cities were shown — San Diego, Austin, and Denver — and the comparison...
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