Real Estate Crisis and A little American Studies

Housing struggles for turnaround | Cincinnati Enquirer | Cincinnati.Com

A little Cincy news with the normal anti-urban bias of the paper

2008 Word of the Year: CRECESSION?

I like it!

Mortgage Crisis Reverses Tide of Urban Renewal

Depressing . . .

Stelzer in the Weekly Standard - he is probably the #2 economist out there in making sense of what’s going on behind Samuelson

Gigot in WSJ - MUST read this . . . helps understand how things got so screwed up

Real Time Economics : Summer Beige Book: Staycations and Higher Prices

Desperate American banks are selling everything that isn’t nailed down—except the private jets. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine

A Depression? Hardly

Samuelson making good sense . . .

Planners See Sleek Future For Tysons

Real Estate Crisis Threatens Spanish Economy

It isn’t just here (Ireland too).

Calculated Risk: Wachovia’s Contribution to the Credit Crunch
Wachovia is now projecting house prices will bottom in mid-2010.

The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936 | August 1936

The Unraveling of the Suburban Fringe

A little ‘love’ for Prince William County, VA

Developments : The Dying Suburbs? A Look at the Growing Debate

A little more discussion of the article we read in class . . .

Developments : Home Prices Are Low, But Getting a Mortgage Is Tough

WSJ.com

Fantastic maps at the WSJ on the impact of the real estate crisis. Have fun!

Developments : Index Shows Falling Home Prices, Rising Sales of Religious Statuettes

Bay Area home prices plunge 27% in last year

Even rich folk in San Fran . . .

Goodman in the NYT

Calculated Risk: Financial Times: US builders forced to sell off holdings

Corn instead of houses . . . good for America.  .  .

Rich Lowry on Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac on National Review Online

This goes to why this has gotten so screwed up . . .

For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach : NPR

You know if they moved to Toledo they could use mass transit . . .

Cbus Dispatch

Rustbelt Intellectual: RACE AND THE REPUBLICANS: ROOT AND BRANCH

Tom S. responds to Voegeli emphasizing the darker side . . .

Voegeli article

A very good discussion of race and modern conservatism

Macbeth and the Market