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California home prices 50 percent off March 2007 peak – Why California home prices will be impacted by multi-year state budget deficits, higher interest rates, and a backlog of distressed properties.


The worst housing crash in history is official: Lesson from the Great Depression Part 29. New home sales fell 80 percent from 1929 to 1932 and fell 82 percent from 2005 to 2011.


Is housing hiding inflation in other sectors of the economy? CPI gives housing a 42 percent weight and this has obscured rising costs in medical care, education, food, and energy. It has also given the Federal Reserve another excuse to digitally print more money.


The financial abyss otherwise known as the California budget – 6 charts showing a challenging year for California housing and economy. Rental vacancy rate adding pressure to buying a home, per capita income down, and lost decade in homeownership.


Financial contradictions with banks chasing profits in other markets – 2010 year of two financial worlds. Stocks in many sectors improve while unemployment increases, home prices fall, condo values in Los Angeles decline, and option ARMs worst performing loan product.


The four corners of the non-California economic recovery – Underemployment at 23 percent, affordability signifies bubble in prices, $25 billion budget deficit, no market is healthy when active foreclosures out number MLS non-distress inventory.


Exporting the U.S. housing bubble – Japan and China real estate bubbles provide a fascinating example of what occurs with currency intervention and quantitative easing. If Ireland implodes with a similar U.S. housing market what does that mean domestically?


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