[quote author="graphrix" date=1257597393][quote author="RoLar_" date=1257575816][quote author="graphrix" date=1257526695]Funny, I show the math month after month that shows the REO sales from the MLS have never kept pace with the foreclosures from DataQuick. I also know that Foreclosure Radar misses quite a few properties. I, like awgee, know of several properties that are sitting as REO from more than six months ago. Someone's data is not accurate here, and when you are focused on a more micro level vs. a macro level it is easier to study and know a micro area than it is to know a macro area. Of course there might also be some bias in hoping this is true when you have recently purchased a house, because you want this to be true. No one wants to make a mistake. Lets see how the next year pans out... who wants to bet against me?
Got jobs?</blockquote>
I think it's pretty obvious I bet against you.
How much will that .3% increase in unemployment hurt housing prices compared to the turn around and decrease of .5%? As of right now, the jobs argument for the bears is mute. Corporate America seems to be doing pretty well.
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Are you high? 10% is doing pretty well? Are you on crack? That is double what it was in 2005 and we have more housing stock now. Fine you bet against me. One year from now, I bet the housing market will be doing worse or still flat and stagnant as it is now. Under 3000 sales is stagnant. What is your bet $100, or how about $1000? Either way you won't take it because you know you are wrong. You don't have the balls to do it because you know that my experience is better than your little over one year but failed economics experience.
Seriously, your chart is laughable. Never, not once in your life time have <strong>you</strong> ever seen double digit unemployment rates. For you to say that corporate America is doing pretty well just shows how naive you really are. In fact, it really is just ignorant.
And your math is bad. 9.8 - 10.2 = 0.04/9.8 = a 4% increase, it is not .3%. Talking about the BPS increase is useless and anyone who has taken statistics/econ knows this. You did take econ 101 at USC, didn't you?
Looking good Ricky Bobby junior, looking really good.</blockquote>
Hey genius... keep up here... 10.1 - 9.8 = ????
Break out the calculator...
What was GDP? What is expected GDP? Stock market have rebounded quite nicely and support continues to hold. Are earnings not a indication of success? Have the reports on the financial sector and now the tech sector not been better than expected?
Professional and business sectors already adding jobs, temporary employment, which generally precedes broader hiring, increased by almost 34,000.
Even calculated risk's cited article states: "Most economists predict that the rate will in fact begin to fall next year, largely because of the federal government?s aggressive response ? fiscal stimulus, interest-rate cuts and a variety of creative steps by the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department. Friday?s report showed that monthly job losses continued to slow recently, though the improvement has been gradual. " - So that's give 2, max 3 quarters of slight increases in unemployment.
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics also revised its August and September unemployment numbers to reflect that 91,000 fewer jobs were lost over those two months than first reported." - I'm confused, is that positive or negative?
The best part about your post is your comment is how your bet has changed to 2 out of the 3 possible forcasts. At first, "I'm graphy, I'm so smart and everyone else is dumb, I bet the RE market will be worse in a year." NOW!! It's "I'm still right, but but but... I bet it the market will be worse or the flat..."
Next comment out of this child's mouth, "I'm smart, and I need to make sure I tell myself that in every post, and I bet the RE market will be worse or flat or slightly better!" HAHAHA
Child Please