Wednesday, February 25, 2009

In the LA Times Dust-up this week

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A discussion with Christopher Thornberg
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More on the relative tax breaks for owning and renting

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Anonymous comments: What's missing from this argument is that the lander is taxed on the rental income (after the deductions mentioned) ...
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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Principal Reduction or Interest Reduction?

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A concern raised with the Obama housing plan is it focuses on payment reduction instead of principal reduction. But a payment reduction bas...
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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Are Owner and Renter Housing treated equally under the federal tax code?

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UC-Irvine, The MacArthur Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored a conference this week on "Housing after the Fall." ...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Brad Delong (and I) on Robert Barro

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Evidence, Logic, and Robert Barro Hoisted from Comments: Richard Green writes: Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Council on Foreign Rela...
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A good plan, except...

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I just watched the President outline his mortgage plan. I think it has two of the three key elements necessary: it will get people's lo...
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Monday, February 16, 2009

Gary Kamiya says the Newspaper Business Model won't work anymore

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I have said something like this too, but I think he says it better : But the real problem isn't that newspapers may be doomed. I would b...

Fannie and Freddie must be making large profits on their new business

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According to Ken Harney , even if borrowers have a 20 percent down payment, if their FICO score is less than 740, they will pay hefty fees t...
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It should have been Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

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And I should have known better...
Sunday, February 15, 2009

The Trouble with Washington

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I was back at GW the last few days for a conference the George Washington Institute for Public Policy put on with the Lincoln Institute for ...
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Sunday, February 08, 2009

Airports are Infrastructure too

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Patrick Smith writes in Salon : "Americans haven't figured out how to build a proper terminal. We fail at aesthetics, we fail at am...
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Friday, February 06, 2009

Would 4 percent mortgages get capitalized into house prices?

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I don't know--and neither does anyone else. I am in the middle of a project with Chris Redfearn and Stuart Gabriel that looks precisely ...
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Sunday, February 01, 2009

Ads I can live without

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So I am watching one of the best Super Bowl 4th quarters ever, and this ad comes on with an obnoxious baby advising us to stop being passive...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

On the GSEs (again)

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This is an excerpt from my commentary at the Berkeley-UCLA conference on the mortgage meltdown: Fannie and Freddie’s management teams did un...
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Sunday, January 25, 2009

John Quigley's solution to the mortgage crisis

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But for two things, I like it : The foreclosure crisis is at the heart of the more general economic crisis. Protecting homeowners at risk of...
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Blocks

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Daniel Solomon, in his book, Global City Blues, makes a nice point about city blocks: of you want to have a vibrant street life, you need sh...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

Are we calming?

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The TED Spread is under 100 bp (just). And my colleague Raphael Bostic points out that intra-day stock price volatility has dropped precipi...
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Monday, January 12, 2009

One way to define bubble cities

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I gave a paper (with Chris Redfearn and Stuart Gabriel) at ASSA last week on how interest rates and income get capitalized into house prices...
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Friday, January 09, 2009

My friend Stuart Gabriel (UCLA) sends me a petition

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And I signed it. I encourage other scholars to do so: Scholars For Peace in the Middle East *Promoting Academic Integrity and Honest Debate*...
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Hope from Lutz Kilian?

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He has the lead article in the new Journal of Economic Literature on the Economic Effects of Energy Price Shocks. He calculates a one year ...
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