by Brian Carr on August 29, 2011
Share Thanks to record low mortgage rates and home prices that have fallen roughly one-third on a national level from the real estate bubble’s peak, buying a home is now more affordable than it has been in decades. (NOTE: This takes into consideration the price of the house/mortgage only, not other costs such as HOA [...]
by Brian Carr on January 7, 2010
Share For the first time in a while, it looks like there might be some division among the Federal Reserve’s policy setting members regarding when the central bank should begin to tighten its easy money policies that have been credited with keeping the U.S. economy afloat during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. [...]
by Brian Carr on December 28, 2009
Share Thanks to a ballooning Federal fiscal deficit, Oliver Biggadike and Daniel Kruger of Bloomberg.com report that the chief fixed-income economist at Morgan Stanley believes the yield of 10 year U.S. Treasury will climb to 5.5% in 2010, which is about 40% higher than the current yield. (Click here to read their article in full). [...]
by Brian Carr on December 22, 2009
Share Don’t look now, but it appears that investors are betting on an economic recovery in 2010 that will be stronger than most economists are currently predicting. Since the beginning of the week, the yield on the 10 year Treasury bond – which is pretty much the benchmark in terms of outward looking economic indicators [...]