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• Is Housing Market Back? September 2012 Report From Raleigh
• Hot Option Plays: Are We Getting Toppy? After Hours
• Stocks Dip To Start Week
• Drivers Pay More At The Gas Pump
• Top 10 Most Expensive College Football Tix 2012
• Housing Affordability Is Historically Very High
• All Signs Pointing To Gold
• 2012: The Year Of The Housing Recovery, Update
• Classic 1978 Milton Friedman Lecture On Trade
• Fed Speeches, Central Banks In Focus

Is Housing Market Back? September 2012 Report From Raleigh Posted: 17 Sep 2012 03:52 PM PDT … [visit site to read more] or compare Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Card Rewards or Best Credit Cards

Hot Option Plays: Are We Getting Toppy? After Hours Posted: 17 Sep 2012 03:18 PM PDT Cusick’s Corner 09-17-2012 The action continued to be tight and the market did come off the lows but there is not much now post the Fed that we could consider a catalyst. This move in the equities over the last 2 months has been impressive and has moved the risk/reward quotient to a point where many bulls might be having a little less of an appetite biting in these levels. This was abundantly clear today in the Crude markets where bids were hard to come by and it pulled back over 2.70%. I also … [visit site to read more] or compare Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Card Rewards or Best Credit Cards

Stocks Dip To Start Week Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:14 AM PDT 09/17/12 Stocks were near session lows Monday, pulling back from last week’s multi-year highs, on a drop in oil prices and on new geopolitical … [visit site to read more] or compare Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Card Rewards or Best Credit Cards

Drivers Pay More At The Gas Pump Posted: 17 Sep 2012 01:36 PM PDT 09/17/12 The AAA Fuel Gauge Report showed a spike in the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline. Traditionally, gas prices decline following the end of the summer driving … [visit site to read more] or compare Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Card Rewards or Best Credit Cards

Top 10 Most Expensive College Football Tix 2012 Posted: 17 Sep 2012 01:17 PM PDT From CNBC, based on tickets being sold in the secondary market on StubHub, Ticket Network, eBay, etc. and aggregated by … [visit site to read more] or compare Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Card Rewards or Best Credit Cards

Housing Affordability Is Historically Very High Posted: 17 Sep 2012 12:55 PM PDT A recent analysis by Trulia concluded that buying a home today is 45% cheaper on average compared to renting a comparable home, see CD post here. That post generated a lively discussion with about 100 comments, and some questioned some of Trulia’s assumptions and analysis (or lack of some key assumptions), although I think the general conclusion is valid that buying a home is relatively affordable today compared to renting a similar home -whether it’s 10%, 20%, 30% or 45% cheaper. Another … [visit site to read more] or compare Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Card Rewards or Best Credit Cards

All Signs Pointing To Gold Posted: 17 Sep 2012 12:25 PM PDT With another syringe of quantitative easing being injected into the U.S. economy's bloodstream, Ben Bernanke is giving the markets their liquidity fix. The Federal Reserve's action reaffirmed my stance I've reiterated on several occasions that the governments across developed markets have no fiscal discipline, opting for ultra-easy monetary policies to stimulate growth instead. The government's liquidity shot promptly boosted gold and gold stocks, as investors sought the protection of … [visit site to read more] or compare Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Card Rewards or Best Credit Cards

2012: The Year Of The Housing Recovery, Update Posted: 17 Sep 2012 12:09 PM PDT DataQuick — “An estimated 41,280 new and resale houses and condos sold in California last month, making it the strongest August since 2006. Last month’s sales total was up 4.5% from 39,507 in July, and up 9.4% from 37,734 sales in August 2011.” “The median price paid for a home in California last month was $281,000, the same as the month before and up 12.9% from $249,000 in August 2011. The July and August median was the highest since September 2008, when it was $283,000. August marked the … [visit site to read more] or compare Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Card Rewards or Best Credit Cards

Classic 1978 Milton Friedman Lecture On Trade Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:52 AM PDT   In the above 1978 lecture at Kansas State University, Milton Friedman discusses free trade, and explains why trade protection and interference in international trade are so widespread, despite the almost universal condemnation of such measures by the economics profession. Professor Friedman also addresses the political obsessions with: a) increasing exports (e.g. President Obama's goal to double exports by 2015) and b) achieving a "favorable balance of trade."  Here's a … [visit site to read more] or compare Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Card Rewards or Best Credit Cards

Fed Speeches, Central Banks In Focus Posted: 17 Sep 2012 08:24 AM PDT 09/17/12 Fed speeches will take place throughout Tuesday’s trading session. The RBA minutes and BOJ meeting will be closely … [visit site to read more] or compare Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Card Rewards or Best Credit Cards

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