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Business Update on KPCC: Housing market changes handsTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:36PMMark Lacter: A little-noticed shift is taking place between baby boomers and younger households.

Council Of Economic Advisors' Annual Reports 2005-2007: No Crisis HereMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:29AMI decided to look at what President Bush's Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) were saying in their annual reports for 2005-2007 about the massive real estate bubble, epidemic of accounting control fraud and mortgage fraud, the resultant rapidly developing financial crisis, and the great increase in economic inequality.

Interest rates: Will savers ever see them rise again?Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 6:31AMInterest rates are so low now that it makes sense to pay off even low-interest debt. But interest rates will rise again.

Jared Bernstein: What's Wrong With This Economy? (Part 2)Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 7:27PMConsumer spending and residential housing are way down and they're not getting much of a boost from paychecks. Which means that stimulus is about the only game in town, or it would be if policy makers weren't spending practically every waking minute on budget cuts.

Wall Street's 'casual corruption'Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 1:24AMThe recession started in 2007 when the housing bubble burst. Bad mortgages led to the banking crisis and then to Wall Street. Why has so little attention been paid to going after the leading figures in the financial industry?

Saving, Trade, and the Confidence FairyThursday, July 14, 2011 @ 7:36AMHere we see the huge gulf between Austrian and Keynesian analysis.

Lodi in no rush for more residential growthThursday, July 14, 2011 @ 2:12AMLODI - It's liveable, loveable, Lodi, and it's going to stay that way until at least 2015.

Quantitative Easing Rounds 1 and 2 Hurt the Economy ... Bernanke Proposes Round 3Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 8:22PM→ Washington’s Blog Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is hinting at a third round of quantitative easing . But Dallas Federal Reserve Bank president Richard Fisher said today: I firmly believe that the Federal Reserve has already pressed the limits of monetary policy. So-called QE2, to my way of thinking, was of doubtful efficacy , which is why I did not support it to begin with. But even if ...

A Frank Discussion With Two Real Estate ProsWednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 5:07PMVia Pension Pulse. On Tuesday, I went for lunch with Frédéric Blondeau and Benoit Caron of Gestion de Placements Eterna , a Quebec trust company founded by Alphonse Tardif in 1928 and successfully managed by three generations of the Tardif family. The company is now run by his grandson, Paul Tardif. Frédéric contacted me, telling me he and Benoit are fans of my blog. I was more than happy to ...