Irvine Housing Blog

Hahahaha, very funny!.. Sad… but funny.

I’d like to wine and moan with Erin Burnett too!

I just noticed the Yahoo home page put up a video of the duet of Bowie and Crosby singing “The Little Drummer Boy”. Could IHB be reaching that far?

“Christmas in Balarney” by Ben Bernake.

What ?  I don’t understand.

We just got word from our landlord that he will be selling the house and that we will have to move. Besides the waste of a weekend and a little back-breaking labor, their is nothing tragic, difficult, shameful, etc about the process. We just find another place and send out change of address cards.

Indeed, 1.8 million is a lot of money when you actually have to pay it back rather than pass the bag on to the next guy.

We will also see the definition of “equity” return to its true meaning being the amount of principal paid off buy the owner rather than its commonly mis-used meaning which analogizes it with “capital gains”.

That’s the whole point!  “Who” started this train?  I think that its pretty obvious… and which is why Greenspan is in damage/legacy control mode.

at least with a Paul presidency, we’d have an incredibly painful year or two which would constitute a true correction.  instead, we’ll almost certainly have an endless japanese-nineties-style grind to the bottom, where baby boomer retirement pressures kick in at just the right time to ensure that the economy stays on the mat.

For a unique blend of comedy and tragedy, track down Bernanke’s writing on the Great Depression, which was the focus of much of his academic ‘work’.

More or less, he places the blame at the system’s lack of liquidity.  (Because the credit standards goosing speculative fever and excess consumption had nothing to do with it.)  Central casting couldn’t have come up with a better person to lead us into the next one.

Amen Mr Vincent,

1.8M is a lot of money, when many posters talk about astromnomical 2006 values for their Irvine apartments and seem shocked that their apartment may not be worth that sum after the current correction, it’s good to pause and reflect that yes 1.8M is a lot of money and should buy real mansion and something strange and unprecidented did occur at the start of the 21st century.

Nice piece “The Little Drummer Boy”.

Thanks, IrvineRenter.

My guess is Karen Carpenter gets featured either tomorrow or the next day - or both!

It could have been Greenspan, but Easy Al chose a different path. Now, the dominoes have been set into motion and can’t be stopped. I heard it expressed this way…“You can’t cheat someone who doesn’t trust you.” The banks don’t trust each other now because they know how much toxic debt they themselves are carrying on (and off) their own books and can only guess at how much their competitors are carrying…so they won’t lend to each other without a mark to market mass purge of the stinking crap, rendering many banks insolvent. That would be the Warren Buffett “we won’t know who’s been swimming naked ‘till the tide goes out” moment. It would also be a free market capitalist correction. Politically, that would be untenable, so what you are getting instead is smoke and mirrors along with bald-faced lies. Can this administration buy enough time to pass it on to the next one?

I agree, nothing will stop what needs to happen.

I think the fed is just prolonging the problem. Only one thing will stop housing prices from crashing - plenty of jobs and mega wage inflation.

As long as hamburger flippers are not making 70k per year, housing prices must come back to trend.

On the other side, we will have a vastly different credit market. You actually have to qualify using guidelines that are starting to resemble the way things used to be.

At some point, 1.8 million will get you what 1.8 million should get you - a true mansion that is only for the rich.

Correction: Cramer wants a 0% fed funds rate.

Cramer is just a shill for the investment community.  He wants 0% interest rates and will whine and moan with Erin Burnett until it happens.  Value adjustments are painful but necessary.

is there anyone or anything that can stop this freight train?  name the person who could be put into this position that can avoid what we all know is headed this way.

Mad Money said it right last week.  Mr. Bernake is over his head.  Although, who needs more spin-control?  Greenspan or Bernake?

I like the happy-face graph.

Think happy thoughts.

Do not alarm the masses.

What?  A liar in this administration?  You’re kidding me?

Come on.
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