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Funniest and Most Absurd Real Estate Promotion in Years

MishTalk

Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. Funniest and Most Absurd Real Estate Promotion in Years. Funniest and Most Absurd Real Estate Promotion in Years.

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Winning Isn’t Everything: The Art of Playing Well

Tom Spencer

This idea has been echoed by some of the most influential figures in the business and finance world, including Professor Michael Porter, Michael Lewis, and Warren Buffett. These securities, which were backed by real-estate mortgages, were sold to investors as a safe investment.

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Damn the Bubbles, More Printing Ahead; Property Bubbles and the Perils of Easy Money

MishTalk

Finance reports Yellen strongly defends easy Fed policies, cites U.S. trillion shadow-banking system, trust financing has been key to fueling the nation’s 10 percent annual growth rate in the past decade by providing easy credit to companies considered too risky by banks. Closely held Zhejiang Xingrun Real Estate Co.

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Mortgage REITs Clobbered as Leverage Forces Sales

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Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. The rise in yields have wreaked havoc in the bond markets and even more so in mortgage-related Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Only Hope For Italy is.

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Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. For example, in Italy, the Monti government introduced a tax on real estate, and 85% of Italians are owners. Ludwig von Mises Institute.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Expect Another "Bad Bank.

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Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. The bad bank has 400,000 real estate assets but tens-of-thousands of the properties have no address. December 2008 (85).

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Scranton Needs 117% Property Tax Hike to Balance Budget

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Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. Scranton taxpayers could face a 117 percent increase in taxes next year as the citys finances continue to spiral out of control. May 2008 (73).