Merrill over Matter

Money supply figures supplied by the Federal Reserve (as of 2010-05-27) continue to decline.  The data shown is the sum of M2 and Instituti...

It has been a while since I last discussed the decline in bank lending.  Total loans and leases continues to decline while bank's holdi...

As I mentioned recently the austerity would be coming with the bailout packages.  It didn't take even a week and the cutbacks have alrea...

This is big folks.  Up until now there has not been any sort of annual property tax on housing so there was no annual cost (beyond a loan)...

The Chinese government continues clamping down on housing rules and regulations.  If the final new article in this post is accurate the resu...

The percentage of delinquent home loans appears to be close to finally cresting.  Well, hopefully.  There are some lags to the data and wh...

The blogosphere has been discussing strategic defaults for a while now.  It appears the concept is hitting the major media outlets now which...