Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Nitpicking Brad Delong on Fannie/Freddie

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He writes (in response to Greg Mankiw): The problem is that in the past year and a half the Federal government has stood behind the debts o...
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Monday, June 29, 2009

Confirm Robert Groves as Census Director

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From his first page of scholar.google.com: B OOK] Survey errors and survey costs RM Groves - 2004 - books.google.com WILEY SERIES IN SURVEY ...
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I am surprised the rate is so low

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Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales find in a working paper that once the value of a family's house falls to below 50 percen...
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Models and Agents teach(es) us about Bank Capital

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She writes: So the first blunder comes early on when Greenspan talks about what he sees as a virtuous circle of rising stock markets, leadin...
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Foreclosures up, but not that high -- GazetteXtra (HT to Kris Hammergren)

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Morris Davis explains how RealtyTrac gets foreclosure numbers wrong. As households are trying to figure out what to do about their housing,...
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Identification Problem

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Traffic has been moving remarkably smoothly on the 110 Freeway for the past week or so. Is it summer? Unemployment? Gas north of $3 per g...
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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Austin Kelly adds to my brief explanation of the origin of Freddie

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He writes: The Federal Home Loan Bank System, chartered in 1932, was created to provide a national source of funds for local thrifts. Any th...
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Friday, June 26, 2009

Significant Features of the Property Tax is Live On-line

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This is a new, valuable tool for those interested in property taxes. http://www.lincolninst.edu/subcenters/significant-features-property-tax...
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Rhonda Porter asks why we have both Fannie and Freddie

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Back in 1987, when I started working on housing finance issues, I wondered this very thing. So I spoke with the person in charge of seconda...
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Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Blessings of Product Variety

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A SoCal phenomenon I don't understand is In n' Out Burger. People around here rave about their burgers; to me they are not worth th...
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Why 15 percent is a magic number for office vacancies

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From Businessweek last April: Stan Ross, chairman of the Lusk Center for Real Estate at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Mark Thoma thinks Ben Bernanke should be reappointed

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He writes: I'd reappoint him. If forced to choose between Yellen and Summers, I'd choose Yellen. I agree. I think Bernanke has done...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

The USC Graduate Real Estate Association has a Blog!

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http://trojangrea.blogspot.com/
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FWIW

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I have spoken recently with a couple of real estate brokers that I trust (i.e., those who tell me when the market is bad). In the western S...
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Saturday, June 20, 2009

I have nothing to add...

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...to B rad Delong and Paul Krugman's posts on the firing of Dan Froomkin from the Washington Post. Except to say that I once thought...
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Friday, June 19, 2009

A Sharpe Rule for Compensation?

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As we think about the extent to which compensation incentives caused the financial mess, we might start with a basic fact: annual internal r...
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Paul Krugman on the how the Obama Financial Reform Plan is Insufficient

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He writes: True, the proposed new Consumer Financial Protection Agency would help control abusive lending. And the proposal that lenders be ...
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The Wisdom of Paul Samuelson

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Two nuggets from an interview with Conor Clarke Last thing. Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the fina...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Mark Thoma Points us to Robert Shiller on Unlearned Lessons

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Did the false belief that land suitable for building houses was becoming scarce help to drive the housing bubble? : .Unlearned lessons from ...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The Miracle of Southwest Airlines

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I am sitting in the Tucson airport awaiting a flight home to LA. I just watched a Southwest 737 stuffed with passengers load and unload in ...
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