August 5th, 2008

Five Reasons Why I Think the Housing Bust Ends in 2008 »

It is hard not to get dispirited by data from the housing world. The national median housing price is down an unprecedented 16% from the second quarter of 2006 through the 1st Quarter of 2008. Not since the Great Depression have we seen declines of this magnitude. (more...)

Piling on Angelo Mozilo??? »

Angelo Mozilo, CEO and founder of Countrywide Financial, is probably in for a bad year. Among his other worries, he has just been sued by the State of Illinois, which was then joined by the State of California. I have not seen the Complaint (civil) but according to a New York Times article the Illinois Attorney General "asked that Mr. Mozilo