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    Fuhgeddaboudit

    Too funny... The Chinese are bailing out the Americans (who are bailing out their banks and the IMF) and the Germans (who are bailing out their banks and the IMF and the EU) and the Saudis (who are bailing out their banks and the IMF and Dubai) and the EU is bailing out Iceland and Ireland and...
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    FED NOT EVEN THINKING ABOUT RAISING RATES TILL 2012

    FED NOT EVEN THINKING ABOUT RAISING RATES TILL 2012This is from the set of FOMC minutes from the April 27-28 policy meeting. I underlined the key sentence from this paragraph: “Participants expected the economic recovery to continue, but, consistent with experience following previous financial...
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    Canadian Mortgage Fraud

    2 interesting links about fraud mortgages rings http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/201...fraud-bank.html http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?catego...ipid=1485504432
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    David Rosenberg on Canadian housing and GDP growth

    Interesting analysis by economist David Rosenberg on the role of housing in the recent economic recovery in Canada. "We did a bottom-up accounting from the GDP data to see just how much of the post-recession recovery in Canada has been due to the direct and indirect effects from the housing...
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    Inside the US Mortgage Meltdown

    QUOTE (ThomasBeyer @ Apr 13 2010, 11:50 AM) the US has FreddieMac and FannieMae .. similar idea to CMHC. The biggest difference between Canada and US is that most Canadian banks do not sell their mortgages .. thus in the US the perception of "risk" or the real risk of lending (i.e. not...
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    The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep the Bubble Going

    Amazing that new stories about how the credit crisis unfolded keep popping up - this one about a hedge fund that played both sides to make amazing returns - http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/04/how-o...e-bubble-going/
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    The Elusive Canadian Housing Bubble

    Here is another view from a speaker with more credentials. Dannielle Park is experienced money manager that, notably had her clients in cash since 2007 before the bear started. She has been warning for a while of financial trends that points to a housing bubble -...
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    David Rosenberg on Canadian housing

    Interesting views on housing outlook - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-b...article1471684/ What are your thoughts?
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    Is it a Bubble?

    Article from WSJ raising concerns about the (too?) fast recovery of Canadian real estate - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...0730017666.html What are your thoughts?
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    Historic house prices

    Hi, Interesting tool from the economist to compare housing trends between different countries over the past several years. One interesting graph to look at is prices compared with average income. Note that in most measurments Canada looks cheaper than many other countries - even after the...
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    The end of Chimerica

    Interesting paper - http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-037.pdf
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    Sliding down the `W`

    Bank analyst Meredith Whitney shared a dim but pragmatic view on the prospects for economic recovery in a Wall Street Journal article last week: "Anyone counting on a meaningful economic recovery will be greatly disappointed. How do I know? I follow credit, and credit is contracting. Access to...
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    CKW Brokerage

    Congrats Tahani!
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    Toyota to move production from California to Cambridge ON

    Good news for the auto sector - http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...28?s_name=Autos.
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    MPAC assessments appeal

    Hi, As all Ontario owners know, MPAC issued new property assessments for 2009-2012 with values reflecting the increases that existed in the markets during the past few years. However, with the current economic reality those growth projections are questionable. I read in teh recent Real Estate...
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    Rents and the economy

    Hi, Here is an article from the New York Times about the rental market in NY: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/realesta...nted=1&_r=1 It has been suggested that a slowing real estate market will increase the demand for rentals, and therefore create upward pressure on rents. However, based on...
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    Any stock tips out there?

    Hi, My 2 cents - I`ve been doing a lot of reading, trying to make sense of the events that we saw during 2008. One measure I started using is to listen to people who accurately called this crisis the early years of this decade. Here are 2 useful links...
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    5 BR Detroit Manse, $8995

    No, I do not have any cheap foreclosure deals to offer - just came across this listing of a property in Detroit... Here is the link: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/for-s...oit-manse-8995/ Yehoram.
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    US Government Bailout of $700 for bad mortgages

    I wonder what would happened if the Chinese and Japanese holders of US government debt would start dumping them in the market - how quickly would the bailout plan pass?
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    Real Estate Agents in Hamitlon

    Hi, Call Dianne Lethbridge (905) 549-3577 [email protected]
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