What the housing bubble looked like up close and personal

Posted on November 5th, 2009 at 08:16pm  |  Add comment

I thought it would be interesting to look at the sale prices of condos in the condo complex where we rent in Downey, CA. The graph speaks for itself. Prices in Southern California were completely out of touch with reality. Look at the bubble in the early 90’s. Prices only went up by 50% and [...]

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Montana just gave the Federal Government the middle finger

Posted on May 10th, 2009 at 09:18pm  |  3 comments

I shared a couple posts about this in Google Reader, but I thought it warranted a full post because this is big. Montana just signed into law the Montana Firearms Freedom Act which has the following summary:

AN ACT EXEMPTING FROM FEDERAL REGULATION UNDER THE COMMERCE CLAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES A FIREARM, [...]

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$200 million for Filipino WWII veterans in stimulus bill?

Posted on February 13th, 2009 at 12:22am  |  1 comment

The full Stimulus bill got posted up tonight, about 10 hours before it goes to the floor of the House. I started skimming through the massive document to see for myself what we’re going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on. Down in Title X – Military Construction and Veteran Affairs, Sec. 1002 caught [...]

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Quotes from Obama talking to Democrats about stimulus package

Posted on February 6th, 2009 at 06:00pm  |  2 comments

Obama rallies Democrats with tough partisan speech

“We can’t embrace the losing formula that says only tax cuts will work for every problem we face; that ignores critical challenges like our addiction to foreign oil, or the soaring cost of health care, or falling schools and crumbling bridges and roads and levees.”

“They didn’t vote for the [...]

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Did things get as bad as I thought?

Posted on January 8th, 2009 at 09:00am  |  1 comment

Back in August of 2007 I wrote this post, Someone forgot to refill the Real Estate ATM, and predicted that we would see a continued drop in prices, foreclosures would go up and so on. What I didn’t see coming was a big drop in the stock market, sharp increase in unemployment and the massive [...]

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