Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for September 15, 2010

"The Great American Stickup": It Was The Economy Stupid

Mish: Shuffling the Commercial Real Estate Deck

How directors of boards in failed companies are in demand and rehired elsewhere

Core Logic: House Prices Decline 0.6% In July

The New, Uglier World of Condo Associations

New FHA Mortgage Insurance Premium Rise Will Take Housing Prices Down Another Notch

Brit Economist says his country's housing prices will fall another 10%

Business/Economic/Business/Housing/Layoff News for September 13, 2010

Michael Moore Teaches Rahm Emanuel a F**cking Economics Lesson

Retail Sales in U.S. Probably Rose for Second Month on Merchant Discounts

Class interests and the future of inflation

Scott Bleier says we can't have a double dip recession as we never came out of the first one

Signs of the Times

How America's Working Class Died on the Disco Dance Floor

Chinese Best Seller Slams Goldman Sachs

China and India: Still Hungry for Coal

Billionaires pessimistic about the Economy

New York Times: Housing Doesn't Need A Crash, It Needs Bold Ideas

Time Magazine: The Case Against Homeownership

National Association Of Homebuilders: Readers Not Buying Time Magazine Cover Story Attacking Homeownership

Andy Kessler: We have 4 or more years of households de-leveraging their debt

742,000 Mortgages In California Are In Foreclosure Or Are One Month Behind

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for September 10, 2010

Goldman Marks Top In Municipal Bond Market?

Which companies are boosting spending and hiring?

Retailers - Reality Check Time

A Visual Guide To Deflation

Mish:65% Fear Double-Dip, 71% Say US is Fundamentally Broken, Net 32% Expect to Reduce Spending

BMW Delivered 103,239 Autos Worldwide In August, Up 12.5% YoY

Russian New Car Sales Surge 51% in August on Cash for Clunkers

Chile New Car, Light Truck August Sales Up 61% To 25,397 Units

State of Oregon Youth Authority faces early release of 325 of its at risk prisoners and up to 200 job cuts

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for September 9, 2010

Meredith Whitney: Wall Street’s Biggest “Ponzi Scheme” Is How It Keeps Investors In The Dark On Their Own Investments

"The 'Ever-Expanding' Government Sector, Illustrated"

Shift from T-Bonds and into Gold and Commodities?

Gold: The Future & The Way Through

Jim Sinclair: Strapping In For The Big Move On Gold



Erin Burnett Slaps Down Rude Guest On CNBC While Another Slides By Saying, "Nothing Is A Bubble When Everybody Wants To Buy It!"

Mish: Consumers Shun Credit Cards - Credit Card Usage Drops, Debit Card Usage Rises

Dr. Housing Bubble: The Banking Stockholm Syndrome

Housing Hitting Bottom, Or Just Getting Hit?

Lockheed to cut 600 executive branch jobs

Harley Davidson looking to cut 200 jobs after settling with Unions on new work contracts allowing for seasonal and part-time workers who get half-pay and no benefits

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for September 8, 2010

Commodities watch: Cotton Rallies to Highest Closing Price in 15 Years: Orange Juice Advances

AP analysis: Economic pain failed to ease in July

Harry Reid (D-NV) blames Bush, Wall Street for sick economy

The Infinite Elasticitiy of Credit - Part 1 (from the Automatic Earth)

Paul Krugman: 1938 in 2010

Depression Written into Law, Part II

John Mauldin: "The Last Chapter"

Fossil Fuels vs. The Public Interest

Peak Denial About Peak Oil

What Is Going To Happen To Global Economies If Rapid Money Velocity Kicks In

William K. Black - Why Covering up Fraud Losses Impairs Economic Recovery: Part One

Motley Fool: Thread On Aging Population And Macro-Economics

Did A Homeowners Association In Ogden, UT Drive A Homeowner To Suicide?

Shock Therapy for the Housing Market

Toll Brothers Building Upper Class Neighborhood On IC Waterway In Florida (They Crash, They Burn, They Never Learn)

Canadian Housing: Another Debt-Fueled Bubble?

Subprime 2.0 Is Coming Soon to Suburb Near You: Edward Pinto

Housing Inventories Rise for Eighth Straight Month

9 Michigan employers to shed 863 jobs in the next few weeks

ZymoGenetics in Seattle to possibly give 320 pink slips after being taken over by Bristol-Myers Squibb

Meredith Whitney Says Wall Street Firms Will Cut 80,000 Jobs Worldwide In The Next 18 Months

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for September 7, 2010

Wall Street Needs `Off-the-Charts' September to Rescue Quarter

81% Rate The US Economy As Poor

Harrisburg, PA blundering closer to bankruptcy

Calculated Risk: Schedule for Week of September 5th

James Howard Kunstler: "In The Headlights"

New York Times: Let Housing Fall Without Government Intervention

Home Owner Association Hell In Florida: $600 For A Mailbox?

Chasing the market down: In struggling housing market, buyers and sellers are out of sync

Sellers cut prices on 50% of homes

Arizona foreclosures push up supply of housing historical highs; cash on cash deals reap buyers 15 to 25% off purchasesFour Job Market Trends We Did Not Celebrate This Labor Day

L.A. Times: For many unemployed workers, jobs aren't coming back

Joblessness blamed for 80% spike in Mass. foreclosures

More Than 300 Health-Hospitals Corporation Workers in NYC Are Laid Off

UMass Health Memorial To Cut 70-80 Jobs Over Coming Weeks

Postal Worker Union Marchers Protest Against Cut Back To 5 Day Workweek