So Why Are Housing Prices Still Rising Here?

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Import prices up on rising international
oil prices

Import prices up on rising international
oil prices 04/16/2005 07:26 AM
Maekyung Internet Apr 16 2005 11:06AM GMT

Housing Envy: Soaring Prices Create
Divide (washingtonpost.com)

Housing Envy: Soaring Prices Create
Divide (washingtonpost.com) 06/17/2005 04:37 PM
washingtonpost.com - Lorna Dressendorfer and Erin Call, both single women in their early thirties, work side by side as labor and delivery nurses in the busy maternity ward at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Northwest Washington.

15-inch LCD prices rising

15-inch LCD prices rising 12/23/2003 03:20 PM
If you've been holding off on that 15-inch flat-panel in hopes of a better deal, you may have waited too long. After years of falling prices, high demand is driving the costs of 15-inch LCDs up, and analysts say they're unlikely to drop anytime soon.

Are you worried about rising oil prices?

Are you worried about rising oil prices? 06/02/2004 07:08 AM
Representatives from the oil cartel Opec are set to meet on Thursday amid concerns over rising oil prices which have reached record highs. How are petrol prise rises affecting you?

House prices rising £1,100 a week

House prices rising £1,100 a week 05/17/2004 04:45 AM
House prices in England and Wales have risen by 2.4% in the past month alone, property website Rightmove says.

Apple: iTunes prices not rising

Apple: iTunes prices not rising 05/07/2004 04:11 PM
'Rumours untrue'

Rising Prices Seen As 'Whiff of
Inflation' (AP)

Rising Prices Seen As 'Whiff of
Inflation' (AP) 04/16/2004 07:39 PM
AP - With energy and raw material costs on the rise and demand for goods and services picking up, gasoline, milk, soybeans, paper products, lodging and clothing are all more expensive these days. As economist Sherry Cooper sees it, there is "a whiff of inflation in the air."

Will rising DRAM prices mean less
memory?

Will rising DRAM prices mean less
memory? 04/20/2004 12:45 PM
Rising DRAM (dynamic RAM) prices could mean bad news for users who hope to find cheap computers packed with lots of memory.

Notes and Tips: Rising iTunes Prices

Notes and Tips: Rising iTunes Prices 05/05/2004 09:36 AM
What's wrong with the iTunes pricing picture - and an interesting suggestion...

Stocks to Open Lower on Rising Oil
Prices (AP)

Stocks to Open Lower on Rising Oil
Prices (AP) 09/27/2004 07:25 AM
AP - U.S. stocks are seen slightly lower at the open as investors stay on guard with oil pushing near the $50-a-barrel level.

World Forum Discusses Rising Oil Prices
(AP)

World Forum Discusses Rising Oil Prices
(AP) 05/15/2004 10:03 AM
AP - Fluctuating oil prices should not cause alarm, but are a key source of global instability, participants at the World Economic Forum said Saturday.

Motorola sees handset prices rising in
Asia

Motorola sees handset prices rising in
Asia 02/18/2004 07:13 AM
Forbes Feb 18 2004 11:09AM GMT

Stocks Up Despite Rising Oil Prices, but
Google's IPO Price Slash Saps Some
Enthusiasm

Stocks Up Despite Rising Oil Prices, but
Google's IPO Price Slash Saps Some
Enthusiasm 08/18/2004 10:53 AM
Xposed Aug 18 2004 2:39PM GMT

Consumer Prices Surge in May; Core
Prices Muted

Consumer Prices Surge in May; Core
Prices Muted 06/15/2004 10:10 AM
The consumer price index rose 0.6 percent in May, the Labor Department said. Energy prices fueled much of the increase.

i-Buddie USB 2 HDD Housing

i-Buddie USB 2 HDD Housing 11/18/2003 11:34 AM
vnunet.com Nov 18 2003 10:29AM ET

UK housing boom continues

UK housing boom continues 04/29/2004 05:01 AM
House prices have picked up again, rising by 2.1% during April, but may cool in the second half of the year says the Nationwide.

Pop Goes the Global Housing Bubble

Pop Goes the Global Housing Bubble 06/17/2005 04:21 PM
The Global Housing Price Bubble is bursting. Prices are already declining in Australia and Britain. The Economist has another story that outlines how a global bursting of this bubble could be deleterious to the world's economy. The bubble is bigger than the stock market bubble of the late 90s. Will there be a smooth landing or will spending collapse when it cannot be funded on housing price gains?

Nailing the Housing Market

Nailing the Housing Market 03/22/2005 06:34 PM
KB Home reports excellent first-quarter results. But investors beware.

Housing curbs for new EU migrants

Housing curbs for new EU migrants 04/26/2004 06:45 PM
Tony Blair will announce curbs on "economically inactive" migrants from new and would-be EU states.

Annals of the Housing Bubble

Annals of the Housing Bubble 05/21/2004 10:01 PM

Mercury News (reg req): Median home prices pass half-million mark. The median price of resale houses sold in the Bay Area reached $520,000 last month -- the first time that figure has exceeded the half-million point.

Lunacy.

The Housing Bubble, Continued

The Housing Bubble, Continued 06/19/2004 12:14 PM

Mercury News (reg req): Economy boosts valley home prices. The median price of a home in Santa Clara County reached $590,000, up 20.2 percent from May 2003, according to DataQuick Information Systems. A total of 2,149 resale houses changed hands in the county last month, a nearly 30 percent increase from a year earlier.

It's much more than the economy at work here. It's a mindless, dangerous bubble that shows what a short attention span human beings have when they are infected with greed and/or panic. This particular news story ends witha local public defender who found a lender that offered a "zero-down" loan -- that is, loaned the full selling price with no down payment. I can understand the borrower's motive, though I think it's an incredibly risky move, but the bank making this loan is just irresponsible. So is the real-estate industry that promotes this kind thing, but that's par for the course. Of course, the lender will now push this mortgage into the national market, offloading it to some other company. This is how we have such liquid markets, and the system was a boon in the past, greased as it has been by the likes of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the giant federal home-loan operations that act as though they have the full faith and credit of the U.S. taxpayer behind them even though they do not. But it is not sustainable, yet nobody in power dares mess with this machinery. What we'll see eventually, if we don't find a way to slowly deflate this bubble, is a massive collapse of the housing market that will in turn spark a severe recession. The truly scary scenario, still not the most likely but growing in probability every day, comes when falling prices for housing lead to massive collapses in the financial industry. But if that occurs, the Fannie Maes and Freddie Macs and the money-center banks with big exposure will be considered too big to fail. We taxpayers will bail them out to the tune of several trillion dollars, an amount that'll make the S&L bailout of the 1980s seem tiny. And the only way that will work will be to re-ignite inflation on an absolutely massive scale, because the only way to make it work will be to ratchet up the money supply in unprecedented fashion. This is a bubble. It will deflate. If it doesn't deflate gently, the nation is in for the worst kind of pain.

Who Cares About the Housing Bubble?

Who Cares About the Housing Bubble? 04/13/2004 10:07 AM
A swig of Pepto and a small perspective shift is overdue.

finally, affordable housing!

finally, affordable housing! 03/17/2005 03:20 AM
Build a huge house for only $782?! Low-cost housing for the masses! Unfortunately, you have to travel back in time to build houses for less than $1000. How many of these homes are in your town or on your block? (courtesy of J-Walk)

Dow Down 43 After Drop in Housing Starts
(AP)

Dow Down 43 After Drop in Housing Starts
(AP) 02/18/2004 08:15 PM
AP - A drop in housing starts and a rally in the U.S. dollar on currency markets sent stocks lower Wednesday as the news gave investors an incentive to collect profits.

Freddie Mac: No Housing Bubble

Freddie Mac: No Housing Bubble 07/30/2004 12:20 PM
Salim Haji gets the scoop on why Freddie Mac believes that the U.S. real estate market today is rational.

Housing Bubble, Continued

Housing Bubble, Continued 04/11/2004 01:19 PM

Mercury News: As offers pour in, cutthroat market a boon for sellers. The fast-paced, competitive nature of this spring's Bay Area housing market has participants and observers alike speculating on the reasons -- particularly after three years of severe job losses.

The story goes on to offer all the usual reasons, such as a shortage of houses and low interest rates. But there's another very good explanation: rampant speculation of another kind, inducing panic buying like the kind that occurred in the stock market in the late 1990s. This is a bubble that will deflate eventually. It's happening elsewhere, as this NY Times story notes today. The mania will end here, too, and it'll be ugly.

No compassion in housing proposal

No compassion in housing proposal 09/22/2004 10:33 AM
Funny, we didn't hear any of the Republicans who used New York City as the backdrop of their convention last month talking about the administration's plans to fo rce poor families to either pay hundreds of dollars in extra rent or go homeless. But we're sure George Pataki, Michael Bloomberg, and Rudy Giuliani are going to talk to their Republican friends in Washington and take care of this pronto.

DIY Underwater Camera Housing

DIY Underwater Camera Housing 06/21/2004 01:43 PM

This do-it-yourself waterproof camera enclosure is pretty involved, and isn't the sort of thing you'd want to screw up, even a little, but if you're handy with the heat gun and aren't afraid to get your handheld deburring tool with swiveling cutter a little dirty, you can take pretty much any type of camera you'd like into the drink. Of course, if they make an underwater housing for your camera, it would probably just be easier to buy that, and maybe a little more reliable. Also, just for the record, this will work with your pet turtle Sub Captain Sandy, but only for about three minutes or so.
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The Housing Bubble Builds

The Housing Bubble Builds 07/08/2004 02:12 PM
The real estate market remains strong despite rising interest rates.

Player Prices Down, Music Prices Up

Player Prices Down, Music Prices Up 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
JOEL JOHNSON -- Dell's iPod clone, the DJ, dropped in price this week from $249 to $199 for the 15GB version and $299 to $279 for the 20GB. While the DJ isn't quite the status symbol the iPod is, it does, you know, play music, and its battery life is...

Oil Prices Surge; Gas Prices Hit Record
(AP)

Oil Prices Surge; Gas Prices Hit Record
(AP) 05/17/2004 07:35 PM
AP - Oil prices surged near $42 a barrel Monday as markets shrugged off a Saudi proposal that OPEC raise its official output target by 6 percent. Separately, the Energy Department said the average U.S. retail price of a gallon of gasoline passed $2 for the first time.

Shelter: A Quest for Non-Toxic Housing

Shelter: A Quest for Non-Toxic Housing 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

Fire at sheltered housing complex

Fire at sheltered housing complex 08/18/2004 07:01 PM
Firefighters tackle a blaze in Edinburgh and evacuate the building, as 20 residents need new accommodation.

H2O Audio SV i700 Waterproof MP3 Housing

H2O Audio SV i700 Waterproof MP3 Housing 09/09/2004 07:52 PM

Anders Steele (someone's mom had high hopes) sent me this image of the H2O Audio SV i700 MP3 player that I thought I'd pass along. H2O Audio doesn't make the MP3 player inside - that's an iRiver iFP-870 - but instead designed the waterproof housing and fully submirsible headphones. You can even use regular headphones while the unit is still inside the housing, or remove it for regular, dry land daily use. The SV i700 housing is a lot better than the earlier H2O models, if for no other reason because it's not ridiculously huge anymore.

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Housing bubble fears 'overblown'

Housing bubble fears 'overblown' 06/23/2004 06:15 AM
Concerns that the booming buy-to-let business could cause a house price crash are overblown, a new survey says.

Housing demand leads to more 'flipping'

Housing demand leads to more 'flipping' 04/15/2005 08:58 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 16 2005 12:23AM GMT

Valley housing market stays hot

Valley housing market stays hot 04/15/2005 08:58 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 16 2005 12:26AM GMT

Housing fears over disorder bill

Housing fears over disorder bill 06/23/2004 01:17 AM
The amount of rented accommodation could be seriously reduced as a result of a new law, it is warned.

N.Y. Officer Kills Man in Housing
Project

N.Y. Officer Kills Man in Housing
Project 01/24/2004 05:00 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 24 2004 8:30PM GMT
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Jobs to go at car parts factory

Jobs to go at car parts factory 06/19/2004 03:08 PM
A total of 580 jobs will be axed from a Leeds factory as production moves abroad.

Firms create 200 factory jobs

Firms create 200 factory jobs 04/29/2004 11:49 AM
More than 200 jobs are created by three firms supplying one of Europe's biggest washing machine manufacturers.

Chicago Factory Growth Slows, Jobs Index
Dives

Chicago Factory Growth Slows, Jobs Index
Dives 12/30/2004 02:47 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 30 2004 5:52PM GMT

It's Not Just the Jobs Lost, but the Pay
in the New Ones

It's Not Just the Jobs Lost, but the Pay
in the New Ones 08/09/2004 01:10 PM
The stunningly slow pace of job creation has provided new ammunition in an intense political debate over job quality.

Jobs to Glaser: Get lost

Jobs to Glaser: Get lost 04/16/2004 08:57 AM
ZDNet Apr 16 2004 1:01PM GMT

less than 2% of jobs are lost to
outsourcing

less than 2% of jobs are lost to
outsourcing 06/11/2004 02:40 PM
why, it's almost as the outsourcing fears are driven by irrational xenophobia

Report: Tech has lost more than 400,000
jobs

Report: Tech has lost more than 400,000
jobs 09/14/2004 03:08 PM
SiliconValley.com Sep 14 2004 6:46PM GMT

Jobs lost at MG Rover dealerships

Jobs lost at MG Rover dealerships 04/19/2005 06:51 AM
Another 86 workers lose their jobs as another part of the MG Rover car company goes into administration.

Study: 400,000 IT jobs lost since 2001

Study: 400,000 IT jobs lost since 2001 09/14/2004 10:43 AM
Nearly half of those jobs disappeared after the recession's official end, with San Francisco and Boston being hit the hardest.

Many New Causes for Old Problem of Jobs
Lost Abroad

Many New Causes for Old Problem of Jobs
Lost Abroad 02/15/2004 11:57 AM
Globalization and technology are amplifying the impact of outsourcing, ranging from call center operators to computer programmers.

Other News: Lost Tech Jobs

Other News: Lost Tech Jobs 09/15/2004 09:58 AM
The U.S. high-technology business has lost a huge number of jobs in the past four years.

200 jobs lost as creamery closes

200 jobs lost as creamery closes 04/06/2005 02:43 AM
A farming co-operative announces it is closing a creamery in west Wales, with the loss of nearly 200 jobs.

High-tech job market lost 400,000 jobs

High-tech job market lost 400,000 jobs 09/15/2004 11:09 AM
CNN Sep 15 2004 3:44PM GMT

Study: 403,300 IT jobs lost since March
2001

Study: 403,300 IT jobs lost since March
2001 09/15/2004 11:39 AM
A new study reports that 403,300 IT jobs were lost between March 2001 and April 2004.

High-Tech Market Has Lost 400,000 Jobs

High-Tech Market Has Lost 400,000 Jobs 09/14/2004 04:28 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Sep 14 2004 8:14PM GMT

400K+ High-Tech Jobs Lost

400K+ High-Tech Jobs Lost 09/16/2004 04:43 PM
CBS News Sep 16 2004 8:10PM GMT

More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in
2002

More Than 500,000 High Tech Jobs Lost in
2002 11/19/2003 08:11 PM
stoolpigeon writes: "A study, released today by the AeA, shows that the U.S. high-tech industry lost 540,000 jobs in 2002, dropping from 6.5 million to 6.0 ...

Chinese Chlorine Gas Explosion Kills
Nine (AP)

Chinese Chlorine Gas Explosion Kills
Nine (AP) 04/17/2004 03:36 AM
AP - Leaking chlorine gas exploded at a chemical plant in China's southwest, killing as many as nine people and forcing 150,000 to flee their homes, the government said Saturday.

Brief: Study indicates 560,000 high-tech
jobs lost since Jan. 2001

Brief: Study indicates 560,000 high-tech
jobs lost since Jan. 2001 03/19/2003 10:26 PM
Most of those jobs were in the manufacturing industry, according to the study, released today by the AEA.

High-tech market lost more than 400,000
jobs since March '01

High-tech market lost more than 400,000
jobs since March '01 09/17/2004 12:31 AM
Usatoday.com - Wed Sep 15, 08:04 pm GMT

A half-million tech jobs lost in 2002,
study says

A half-million tech jobs lost in 2002,
study says 11/19/2003 05:44 PM
New research indicates that some 540,000 high-tech jobs were lost in the United States last year. But the research suggests the unemployment trend has slowed in 2003.

Jobs: 'Sales guys' lost Apple market
share

Jobs: 'Sales guys' lost Apple market
share 01/26/2004 01:10 AM
Apple CEO Steve Jobs says "sales guys" are to blame for his company's small market share...

Mercury Wars Autism MS AMALGAM ?50PC.
MERCURY

Mercury Wars Autism MS AMALGAM ?50PC.
MERCURY 09/06/2004 05:48 PM
This is the 5th article in the series trying to get the UK Gov. to seek the truth about Mercury and its effects. It was published on the BNP site three days before the UK Gov. announced the withdraway of mercury from vaccines [PRWEB Aug 11, 2004]

Devshed: The Factory Method and Abstract
Factory

Devshed: The Factory Method and Abstract
Factory 12/22/2004 01:40 AM
With more on the PHP patterns front, Devshed has a new article posted about the Factory Method and Abstract Factory.

Lost mail campaign gets lost in post
(Reuters)

Lost mail campaign gets lost in post
(Reuters) 06/27/2004 01:25 AM
Reuters - A postal campaign to highlight the quantity of letters that go missing each year has been given a stamp of authority after none of the letters arrived at their intended destination.

Fiction: LOST BOY LOST GIRL By Peter
Straub.

Fiction: LOST BOY LOST GIRL By Peter
Straub. 11/15/2003 07:49 PM
So in addition to the standard-issue frissons to be found here (and one of the most startling involves only a light bulb), this book also attempts a Google ...

Lost Revenue? Nope ... Just Lost
Opportunities

Lost Revenue? Nope ... Just Lost
Opportunities 04/15/2005 06:43 PM
Whenever we hear about established industries whining about how much money they're losing from alternative forms of media consumption, we just shake our heads. If you do too, then brace your neck before reading on. A new study by Accenture says that TV networks will "lose" $27 billion in the coming five years because of ad skipping by DVR users. Not being able to read the full story on AdAge, we can only assume that Accenture thinks advertisers will pull back from the networks to the tune of $5-plus billion per year, simply because DVR watchers can skip ads. Not likely. The connection is highly dubious and the figures are entirely far-fetched. Yet even more troubling is the age-old "lost money" methodology. Each ad skip does not proportionally diminish the network's coffers -- no money is being subtracted from their bottom line. Rather, any "losses" from ad skipping would come from the network's inability to adapt to new trends and attract those dollars elsewise. The networks are losing money to ad-skipping no more than record companies are losing money to downloads. The quicker they see these as lost opportunities, instead of lost dollars, the better for them.

Lost without Lost? You might be in the
Land Down Under

Lost without Lost? You might be in the
Land Down Under 04/05/2005 05:23 PM
Delays in getting new episode of US shows in Australia have led many to turn to BitTorrent. It may be time to rethink the broadcast model.

Vanishing Jobs: Structural change in the
economy means many jobs are never going
to come back. 12/19

Vanishing Jobs: Structural change in the
economy means many jobs are never going
to come back. 12/19 12/20/2003 05:03 AM
It's been a long time since I heard anything positive about American programming jobs .. Those Good Paying Jobs Are Not Coming Back

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Steve Jobs to Preview Mac OS X ''Tiger''
at WWDCSteve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's W

Steve Jobs to Preview Mac OS X ''Tiger''
at WWDCSteve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's W 05/04/2004 03:21 PM
Steve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2004 with Preview of Mac OS X "Tiger"

So Why Are Housing Prices Still Rising Here?

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