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Economy

Home Sales for Past Four Years Revised Down by 14%

by Brian Carr on December 21, 2011

Share I’ve always taken the data reported by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) with a grain of salt, especially during the downturn in housing. They’ve always seemed to have a Pollyanna view on things, routinely telling us that the worst was behind us and better days were ahead, only to see sales and prices [...]

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We Never Really Got Out of The Great Recession

by Brian Carr on September 2, 2011

Share As you’ve read here several times (It’s Not a Double Dip, It’s a Depression?, 10 Signs We’re Headed for Another Recession – Or That The Last One Never Ended), I truly believe we never left the Great Recession. Sure, in the very broadest technical definition of the word we left The Great Recession because our GDP [...]

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Share It seems like an already tough time for consumers is getting even worse. Despite a sluggish economy (which, according to Morgan Stanley is dangerously close to entering a recession, but you already knew this because you’re an avid reader of this site), continued high unemployment, and an extremely bi-polar stock market, it appears as [...]

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Economic Uncertainty Leads to Spike in Safe Sales

by Brian Carr on August 15, 2011

Share Without a doubt, the last month has been filled with economic uncertainty. The United States Congress took forever to raise the debt limit, having the new legislature signed into law the very same day the country was due to hit the debt limit. Last week stocks plunged, regained ground, plunged, and came back again. [...]

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