Monday, December 1, 2008


If your house fell off this cliff you might be eligible for a bailout.

Real Estate:

The latest S&P/Case-Shiller Indices are out. What could I possibly add except to say that the chart will have to be redrawn since the Y axis does not go far enough into negative territory to plot next month’s decline.

Banks:
There have been 73 mergers and 10 bank failures so far this year plus bailouts for Citigroup (2x), a little help from friends for JPMorgan and Bank of America, and a little something under the table for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. The FDIC has just added 54 more banks to its watch list, which now stands at 171.

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