Entries from September 2009

Mortgage and Housing Related: Rates, Inventories, TBW – Freddie, 7 Million Foreclosures, Housing Prices, First Time, Subprime Delinquencies 50%

September 27th, 2009 · No Comments

  Mortgage rate update — the deal of a lifetime – Scott Grannis -  Calafia Beach Pundit  ———— Home Inventory Measure Falls to April 2007 Level – Mark Perry’s Carpe Diem Blog  ———— Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, Freddie Mac hammer out agreement [...]

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Economy: Consumer Confidence, McTeer on Spending, Venezuela Screw Up, Name Your Poison

September 27th, 2009 · No Comments

    Consumer Confidence at Highest Level Since January 2008, Largest 6-Month Gain in 15 Years – Mark Perry Carpe Diem Blog ———— Can You Spend Your Way Out of Recession? – “You can’t spend your way out of recession” is a sound bite heard almost [...]

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Various Markets: Futures Liquidity, Houses & Gold, Cramer $1T Treasuries, Fed Buys MBS, Volatility Index, Gas & Oil, Distressed Debt

September 26th, 2009 · No Comments

  Post Crisis:  Liquidity returns to interest rate futures markets – has 3 measures and explanations – … Galen Burghardt … saying that even though the interest rate markets “basically went away” during the last year or so, these markets are getting back to having the footing they had [...]

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The Garrett, Watts Report (Sept. 25, 2009)

September 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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To Our Clients, Colleagues and Friends, 

Remember Western Sunrise Mortgage and its President, Cindy Sample? Cindy has been working on a novel, and she told us that she just sold it to a publisher in Texas .  The book Dying for a Date will be out in mid-2010.  It’s a murder mystery, and she writes “Aren’t [...]

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Tags: Commentary · Garrett Watts · Mortgage Market