MetaFilter posts tagged with housingbubble

The Vending Machine God and the Housing Bubble

jaimev — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:16:01 -0800

Was the housing bubble caused by very low long-term fixed-rate mortgages? Or was is due to a national, get-rich-quick obsession? Or Did Christianity Cause the Crash? The Prosperity Gospel teaches that God desires the material, spiritual, and physical prosperity of his people. It fosters risk-taking and intense material optimism, and the author argues that it helped inflate the housing bubble.

Contemporary Hooverville

MythMaker — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:02:27 -0800

Tent cities spring up in L.A. With foreclosures rates still rising, shantytowns have started springing up in Los Angeles.

living in a gilded cage

geos — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:09:04 -0800

America 's debtor prisons .

A world of Casey Serins

Asparagirl — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:13:46 -0800

What's the link between:
1) the quickly-growing number of American homeowners becoming unable to pay their mortgages after their ARM's reset (a trend nicknamed "ARMageddon" -- applicable in the UK too), which is translating into soaring foreclosure rates, and in turn forcing at least 60 US semi-shady mortgage brokers to go belly-up in the past year (i.e. the "subprime meltdown"), and...
2) the recent implosion and impending financial bailout -- which may become the biggest since the Long Term Capital Management fiasco of 1998 -- of two Bear Stearns hedge funds which dealt in mortgage securities? [more inside]

More red meat for the housing bears

Kwantsar — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:57:37 -0800

Home Prices Do Fall A look at the collapse of the 1980's real estate bubble through the eyes of The New York Times
Better with Times select. Also better with Firefox's fetch text extension

Your Dreamhouse on the Coast

alms — Wed, 04 May 2005 19:49:41 -0800

How to detect a housing bubble. (Via Seeing the Forest.)

The Fall of Fannie Mae

trharlan — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:11:07 -0800

The Fall of Fannie Mae This is not your ordinary accounting fraud. Yes, there's the matter of $9 billion in overstated earnings. But the fight over Fannie is a nasty political showdown where everyone has his own agenda. And it's not over yet.