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Genesis
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2008-07-29 22:16:59
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Good angle!

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2008-07-29 22:37:26
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Nomullet
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Check out this leverage chart:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/07/h....




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2008-07-29 22:45:35
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Forn2008
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Great ticker there Karl. Short and to the point. Too bad politicians are blind to those realities. Lower the price of a home and more people will buy one.

2008-07-29 23:22:16
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That is one scary chart there NOMULLet. That sure points to a deflation scenerio. The other peak there occured during the Great Depression, which was defaltionary as well.

2008-07-29 23:25:17
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Quote:

Now let's call houses DVD players.

You want to have the maximum number of people able to own a DVD player.

How do you this?

You find ways to make them CHEAPER.


This is what I've been trying to say all along!

I certainly hope THIS ticker has been faxed to the relevant politicians.

2008-07-29 23:41:26
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Nice and succinct — Thank You

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2008-07-30 00:04:29
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Thanks KD - great stuff

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2008-07-30 00:06:47
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Blackswan
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Politicians can't let home prices deflate. That will destroy the collateral and **** their banker friends even more. Bank America crafted this bill if I am not mistaken.




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2008-07-30 00:40:54
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Gen_maximus57
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The Bailout Bill does very little to support housing prices other than the tax incentive. However, it will actually increase the speed of the declines if the banks start writing down principle.

NoMullet - Thanks for the chart, that is really scary

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2008-07-30 01:26:55
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the way to deflate the home price would be to raise interest rates. if you raise interest rates, a lower home price may not necessarily equal a lower payment.

2008-07-30 04:44:33
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Stkmktbear
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also, if someone forecloses and becomes a "credit risk," it will be even more unlikely that the payment will be lower with higher interest rates.

2008-07-30 04:46:48
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Karl, can i make a general TICKER comment. A few months back the ticker was engaged on the whole in discussing markets, stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, etc....

Lately there has been more and more political debate about the housing bill and the state support of market losses.

These eco-polotical discussions are excellent, but i personally feel they are diluting the more market based discussions that the ticker - well you really - raised in fantastic detail.

I know this is your site and your blog etc.... but as a reader commenting back to the editor - i feel the swing towards politics and away from market based and economics debate is not why many people love the Ticker - hope you don't mind a bit of feedback - regards RB7

2008-07-30 05:59:31
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Doesn't Nomullet's post of the NC chart illustrate the math issue Mr D mentions?:
if everyone tries to deleverage in a given asset class at once, and therefore prices for that asset fall even more, that paradoxically leverage can actually increase because the denominator (the value of the assets) can fall faster than you can disgorge the numerator (the paper you allegedly have "secured". IMO, it MUST. There is NO way people were able to get MORE credit during the depths of the Depression...

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2008-07-30 07:14:58
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I guess if your GDP falls 30% and your leverage was 200% than it would shoot up another 60%.
I did post the chart as an adjunct to what KD was saying about the leverage increase.

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2008-07-30 09:36:47
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McCulley's article sure looks like an incontrovertible admission of fraud to me. I'm thinking of sending it CA AG Brown.

2008-07-30 10:14:31
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Quote:
if everyone tries to deleverage in a given asset class at once, and therefore prices for that asset fall even more, that paradoxically leverage can actually increase because the denominator (the value of the assets) can fall faster than you can disgorge the numerator


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Time to Lever Up Uncle Sam’s Balance Sheet


First he admits that prices must go down in a self fulfilling negative feed back loop. Than tries to claim that the only solution is for the taxpayer to foot the bill, specifically so that he and his company can extract a profit that would otherwise not be there, a trade they entered with this express purpose. This is diabolical. A full and total confession if you ask me.

I'm going through this article and some news items by PIMCO where they publicly stated that they recently increased their Fanny and Freddy holding by dramatic amounts, again, for the express purpose of dumping this on the government, dumping an asset that is knowingly mis-priced as he glaringly admits here.

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! talk about in your face!

2008-07-30 10:41:37
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Great ticker short enough for Realtors and the public to understand.

One question and sorry in advance if it has already been answered.

How and Who will decide what the current market value of a home is
when the people try to refi according to the housing bail out bill?
Seems like it would be worthless to go back to the same appraisers who got us into this mess.

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2008-07-30 13:43:03
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Txdomer
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Sounds good in theory, but could a 'homeowner' that defaults really expect to be able to get a mortgage later to buy the home back?

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2008-07-30 13:56:20
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Follow the money: Deflating home values will also reduce property tax revenue eventually. And we know how much our pols LOVE tax revenue to **** away on their pet spending and income redistribution projects.

John

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