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Trader Made Billions on Subprime

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Posted by ian 329 days ago (online.wsj.com). Views: 698
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On Wall Street, the losers in the collapse of the housing market are legion. The biggest winner looks to be John Paulson, a little-known hedge fund manager who smelled trouble two years ago.

Funds he runs were up $15 billion in 2007 on a spectacularly successful bet against the housing market. Mr. Paulson has reaped an estimated $3 billion to $4 billion for himself -- believed to be the largest one-year payday in Wall Street history.

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Housing Bubble and Bear Links (1,302 Links)

Created by ian 1 year 274 days ago in Finance. Views: 6,311. Link Views: 199,473
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This channel was created on April 10, 2007 to warn investors of the coming collapse in home prices. For quite some time we have warned investors to get out of U.S. stocks. This channel represents the best of the best in finance related links. I read [More...]

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A history of home values

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Posted by ian 1 year 181 days ago (www.thefinancialhelpcenter.com).
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Yale economist Robert J. Shiller created an index of American housing prices going back to 1890. It presents housing values in consistent terms over 116 years, factoring out the effects of inflation. Here's more information on the the biggest bubble [More...]

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Housing decline is 1/3 complete and will not bottom until 2012 or later

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Posted by ian 178 days ago (www.harpers.org). Views: 1,646
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Cramer, you're wrong. Housing will not bottom until 2012 or later. So far you have called 3 bottoms in the stock market (one after the Fed cut rates by 125 bp in 8 days, one after the Bear Stearns bailout, and now one after the Housing Bill / SEC naked [More...]

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Market Value of Household Real Estate (graph)

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Posted by ian 1 year 126 days ago (static.seekingalpha.com). Views: 1,557
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Up about $10 trillion since the start of the bubble in 2000. The entire GDP of the United States is $13 trillion. The housing bubble is therefore many times bigger, in fake wealth created, than the tech stock bubble which ended badly in 2000.

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Perhaps the best summary of the housing situation I have seen on the web

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Posted by ian 1 year 139 days ago (efinancedirectory.com). Views: 658
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Written in early July 2007 before the worst of the subprime mortgage meltdown. Contains fantastic graphs showing Median Wage vs. Home Price and house prices in Japan during their bubble and subsequent depression.

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Cramer flips out on live TV over bursting housing bubble (video) - "We have Armageddon"

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Posted by ian 1 year 157 days ago (www.youtube.com). Views: 764
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Cramer COMPLETELY flips out live on CNBC - screaming for Fed chief Bernanke to cut interest rates. He's correct, but why didn't he predict the bursting housing bubble? This whole thing took him by surprise - which is why he's flipping out. "We [More...]

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Doomsday -- The Final Months of the "Housing Bubble" (July 27, 2005)

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Posted by ian 302 days ago (www.dissidentvoice.org). Views: 372
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Mike Whitney, like a few others, called the peak of the housing bubble almost precisely when it occurred.

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This Is the Sound of a Bubble Bursting - New York Times

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Posted by ketchpel 1 year 15 days ago (www.nytimes.com).
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Describes the impact of the real estate bubble bursting in SW Florida

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Greenspan alert on US house prices - says US house prices are likely to fall significantly from their present levels

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Posted by ian 1 year 114 days ago (www.ft.com).
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US house prices are likely to fall significantly from their present levels, Alan Greenspan has told the Financial Times, admitting that there was a bubble in the US housing market. In an interview ahead of the release on Monday of his [More...]

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Housing Bubbles don't pop; they deflate slowly (video)

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Posted by ian 1 year 129 days ago (www.youtube.com). Views: 282
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Stock market bubbles *POP* .... housing bubbles take many years to deflate - Japan's has been deflating since 1990! This type of slow pain is actually worse than the quick pain at the end of a stock market bubble - just like ripping off a band aid slowly [More...]

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