News: Real Estate Bubble

A real estate bubble, fueled by bad loans & too much leverage, explains much of our turmoil. An article from The New York Times about the Chinese version, caught my attention. With banks trading credit risk, through those insufferable Weapons of Money Destruction otherwise known as credit default swaps, I wonder what the world's financial exposure

The Hang Seng Index was virtually unchanged while the Shanghai Composite shed -.66% on Wednesday, highlighting the uncertain mood of investors in Asia on Wednesday. Chinese economic data was mixed with soaring property prices in one hand and 45.7% export growth in the other hand. Investors fear that a real estate bubble might be building, prompting

Real estate prices are touching the skies in China and critics are criticizing it as a bubble. According to Nicholas Lardy, an economist from the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C, the number of Chinese people moving to big cities and doing well there have been increasing and this is fueling the real estate price boo

The real estate bubble has left entire cities in shock: Which cities will turn it around in 2010 and begin to grow? Which are the worst cities to buy homes in now? Find out here.

Many people have railed against hedge funds like the Blackstone Group for inflating the bubble we saw in the real estate market and then profiting from the collapse. While the accusations may be true, small investors can buy shares of Blackstone for the dividend and sell a call option in order to profit by trading the company's stock.

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The national real estate market, state markets and city markets all seemed to be wrapped up in a nifty bundle that effect whether your Brooklyn home for sale will have a buyer. With the news reports over the last two years about the pop of the housing bubble, homeowners everywhere essentially lost their minds.

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