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Has the Housing Market Finally Hit Bottom?

Many have been eager for home prices nationally to reach a point at which they stabilize and start to creep back up, but the information superhighway is littered with the corpses of pundits who have erroneously called the “bottom” of the real estate market. Hope springs eternal, however, and this week produced two reports which have analysts optimistic that we're out of the woods when i comes to housing.

Could China Be the Next Greece?

There’s a lot of finger wagging going on in the world about America’s profligate ways. And a lot of comparisons between the budget troubles of the U.S. and the horrors facing Greece. The West, the story goes, stupidly spent  beyond its means while emerging markets wisely saved their pennies for rainy days like these. But [...]