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Doug Duncan: Even US Government Economists Predict Trouble Ahead

By silveristhenew | Published April 17, 2018

This report was originally published by Adam Taggart at PeakProsperity.com Doug Duncan is not your average beltway economist. The chief economist for Fannie Mae is surprisingly outspoken about the troublesome outlook for the US economy. He’s worried about the rising cost of debt service as outstanding credit continues to mount at the same time interest […]

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Doug Duncan: Even US Government Economists Predict Trouble Ahead

By silveristhenew | Published April 17, 2018

This report was originally published by Adam Taggart at PeakProsperity.com Doug Duncan is not your average beltway economist. The chief economist for Fannie Mae is surprisingly outspoken about the troublesome outlook for the US economy. He’s worried about the rising cost of debt service as outstanding credit continues to mount at the same time interest […]

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Keep Calm & Carry On

By silveristhenew | Published November 17, 2017

Authored by 720Global's Michael Liebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “Before long, we will all begin to find out the extent to which Brexit is a gentle stroll along a smooth path to a land of cake and consumption.” – Mark Carney, Bank of England Governor In 1939, the British Government, through the Ministry of Information, produced a […]

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“Innovative Mortgages”: Lennar Lures Millennials With Offer To Repay Student Loans

By silveristhenew | Published October 2, 2017

Homebuilder Lennar has come up with a genius strategy to partially eliminate the massive bubble in student loans that has crippled recent graduates and forced them into a life devoid of the American dream of home ownership…it’s a “two birds with one stone” kind of solution.  Yes, rather than struggle to make those monthly student […]

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Global Stocks Hit Another Record High, Ignore Slowing Chinese Trade

By silveristhenew | Published August 8, 2017

Following a sleepy overnight session, US futures are flat as are markets in Europe, while Asian stocks rose despite overnight trade data from China which unexpectedly missed across the board. As reported last night, Chinese export growth was the slowest since February while Import growth the weakest since Dec 2016, as both missed consensus estimtes. […]

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Fannie, Freddie Would Need $100BN Bailout In New Financial Crisis

By silveristhenew | Published August 7, 2017

While the latest Fed stress test found that all US commercial banks have enough capital to survive even an “adverse” stress scenario, a severe recession in which the VIX hypothetically soars to 70, the two US mortgage giants would not be quite so lucky: according to the results from the annual stress test of Fannie […]

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Record Apartment Building-Boom Meets Reality: First CRE Decline Since The Great Recession

By silveristhenew | Published July 23, 2017

By Wolf Richter of WolfStreet Even the Fed put commercial real estate on its financial-stability worry list. No, the crane counters were not wrong. In 2017, the ongoing apartment building-boom in the US will set a new record: 346,000 new rental apartments in buildings with 50+ units are expected to hit the market. How superlative […]

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Relax, There Is No Housing Bubble

By silveristhenew | Published June 3, 2017

Visit Full Archives At The Entry Points   Three heavy hitters in real estate – Darius Bozorgi, Veros CEO, Mike Fratantoni, Mortgage Bankers Association chief economist, and Douglas Duncan, Fannie Mae chief economist – all agree, “There is no housing bubble“. These real estate experts are all in agreement, and they believe the relentless house price […]

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GDXJ’s Epic Rebalance – It’s Knife-Catching Time

By silveristhenew | Published June 2, 2017

Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist blog, Do you remember the opening scene of the movie Trainspotting? Renton tries to give up heroin. He decides to kick his junk habit cold turkey, and boards himself in his room. Even before he starts to feel the symptoms of withdrawal, Renton has ripped off the […]

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Frontrunning: May 24

By silveristhenew | Published May 24, 2017

Trump Meets With Pope Francis After Policy Clashes (WSJ) Fed Minutes to Offer Clues on Debate Over Path of Rate Increases (WSJ) Manchester bomber had ‘proven’ links to Islamic State (Reuters) U.K. Chides U.S. for Leaking Manchester Bombing Probe Details (BBG) Manchester Bomber, Salman Abedi, Is Thought to Have Traveled to Syria (NYT) ‘No defeat, […]

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