By Bob Stokes
3/6/2012 5:45:00 PM
Anyone who bought near the housing mania peak was left holding the bag -- and in the bag was a mortgage that today exceeds the value of the property. Lesson learned? Apparently not...
Filed Under: foreclosures, home sales, housing prices
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
3/5/2012 5:00:00 PM
As pundits chatter about an economic recovery, municipalities are facing bankruptcy - including the largest-ever U.S. city. What's really going on?...
Filed Under: credit rating, debt downgrade, economic depression, foreclosures, home sales, junk bonds, municipal bonds
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
2/17/2012 5:45:00 PM
As any homeowner knows, one unexpected repair can run into the thousands of dollars. Then there's the maintenance (and other costs) you do expect, which add up to a pretty penny by the end of a given year. On the other hand, homeowners do get tax breaks. But even considering that, is a house or condominium a good investment?...
Filed Under: foreclosures, home sales, housing prices, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
1/31/2012 5:45:00 PM
Will the wide swaths of vacant homes now visible in Detroit, Cleveland, Las Vegas and Florida become common elsewhere?...
Filed Under: consumer confidence, deflation, foreclosures, home sales, housing prices
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
1/10/2012 5:15:00 PM
It's time to learn specific steps on how to financially protect yourself before the economy sinks even deeper into a deflationary depression. Indeed, you can even position yourself to prosper in the months ahead. How?...
Filed Under: Club EWI, commercial real estate, conquer the crash, deflation, foreclosures, mania
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
9/15/2011 11:00:00 AM
Bursting of the "debt bubble": It's the financial story of our age and it's happening before our eyes. The full scope is hard to keep up with because it's unfolding at various levels, such as...
Filed Under: Club EWI, conquer the crash, consumer credit, debt crisis, European debt crisis, foreclosures, liquidity, Robert Prechter, soverign debt crisis
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
7/21/2011 5:30:00 PM
An overpriced listing will deter buyers even in a good housing market. Yet today's market includes an added risk...
Filed Under: commercial real estate, deflation, foreclosures, housing prices, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate
By Nico Isaac
7/14/2011 6:45:00 PM
Before you join the financial media in their collective sigh of relief, let me point out that in the May 2011 Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, EWI analysts presented the following chart of the DJIA versus two key financial indexes...
Filed Under: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), foreclosures, market forecasts, subprime lending
Category: Stocks
Money in the Bank: Does It Still Mean "Safe and Sound?"
Elliott Wave International's free report "Discover the Top 100 Safest U.S. Banks" explains the true risk that you may face when a bank fails.
By Hope Welborn
6/8/2011 3:15:00 PM
Some economists claim we're in a recovery, yet hundreds of smaller financial institutions still suffer from the debt crisis that began a few years back.
Filed Under: Robert Prechter, central banks, Club EWI, conquer the crash, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), foreclosures, housing prices, liquidity, personal finance, recession, unemployment
Category: Classic Prechter
By Bob Stokes
6/6/2011 5:15:00 PM
Home prices were on a "one-way street" -- namely up. But as we know, the trend in real estate prices did an abrupt U-turn. Now it's traveling swiftly in the opposite lane. How long will this downward trend continue?...
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, conquer the crash, economic depression, foreclosures, housing prices, subprime lending
Category: Real Estate
By Susan C. Walker
5/27/2011 2:00:00 PM
With a double-dip housing recession and foreclosures accounting for 28% of all U.S. home sales in April, the housing debacle is the gift that keeps on taking away. Elliott Wave International began warning about the consequences of too much credit in the U.S. economy and the housing markets in the early 2000s. What does it say now?
Filed Under: conquer the crash, foreclosures, housing prices, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
5/3/2011 5:30:00 PM
Gas and food costs appear to be such a persuasive argument for inflation that it's easy to overlook other economic data -- such as...
Filed Under: consumer price index, consumer spending, deflation, foreclosures, inflation
Category: U.S. Economy
By Bob Stokes
4/29/2011 3:30:00 PM
Commercial real estate's downward trend goes beyond suburban malls. Much office space in business districts is empty. Read this excerpt...
Filed Under: commercial real estate, conquer the crash, credit crisis, deflation, foreclosures, housing prices, Robert Prechter, subprime lending
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
4/4/2011 5:15:00 PM
Does the latest housing data suggest a bottom now -- a time to go searching for your dream home?...
Filed Under: foreclosures, housing prices, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate
US Housing Market: The Lost City Of Atlantis
Elliott wave analysis and historical stock market and real estate trend comparisons helped foresee the historic reversal in the US real estate market.
By Nico Isaac
2/10/2011 6:00:00 PM
According to the most recent quarterly real estate market survey from Zillow.com, the percentage of U.S. homes UNDERWATER -- i.e., those whose market values are below what's owed on them -- soared from 20% in August 2010 to 27% today. On top of that, home prices continue to decline while foreclosure rates rose to a new, all-time record high. (February 10, 2011 Associated Press)
Filed Under: foreclosures, housing prices, market forecasts, subprime lending, Wall Street
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
12/14/2010 4:45:00 PM
The evidence so far shows that the Fed's attempts to stop the deflationary trend will fail, including home values...
Filed Under: conquer the crash, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), foreclosures, housing prices, quantitative easing, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
12/1/2010 4:15:00 PM
Houses are just one of many assets that skyrocketed during The Great Asset Mania. Our analysis suggests that the "downward spiral" has much further to fall...
Filed Under: foreclosures, housing prices, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate
"Chuck the Mortgage! Live Free!"
"Strategic defaults" are the new "normal" in financial responsibility attitudes.
By Bob Stokes
6/3/2010 10:45:00 AM
Remember late last year when the federal government tried slowing the foreclosure crisis? Scores of mortgage companies were "asked" to help strapped homeowners stay in their homes. A program was set up to reduce mortgage rates to as low as 2 percent for five years. What a deal! What a -- dud. Well, seems like many home owners have found a new way of dealing with the foreclosure crisis.
Filed Under: foreclosures, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate
By Jeff Reckseit
10/26/2009 4:45:00 PM
Are you weary of sorting through all the “good news – bad news” dialogue? The financial media would have you believe that everything is coming up roses.
Filed Under: housing prices, credit crisis, unemployment, foreclosures
Category: Classic Prechter
By Jeff Reckseit
8/10/2009 3:45:00 PM
Whether you get your news from the internet, TV, or the newspaper (if your town still has one) the health care debate is everywhere. Town Hall meetings across the country have turned into mob scenes and in some instances, riots. Spontaneous or orchestrated, one thing about these demonstrations is clear -- they're all very YouTube-able.
Filed Under: foreclosures
Category: Classic Prechter