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  • Some big cities at risk of another housing bubble: Shiller

    07/05/2013 5:02:14 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 3 replies
    Reuters ^ | Thu Jun 27, 2013 6:35pm EDT | Tim Reid
    Dramatic home price gains in some of America’s largest cities point to a potentially new housing bubble in those areas, according to Robert Shiller, who helped create a closely watched gauge of U.S. housing prices. Shiller said big price gains in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Phoenix, fueled in part by a large influx of outside investor money, are a possible sign of trouble ahead. “There is a risk of bubbles in these cities,” Shiller, a co-founder of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, told Reuters on Wednesday. “House prices increases have been dramatic. It looks like the...
  • US consumer optimism at Watergate low

    03/25/2008 9:31:38 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 12 replies · 423+ views
    Telegraph ^ | 03/26/08 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
    US consumer optimism at Watergate low By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last Updated: 12:55am GMT 26/03/2008 Consumer expectations in America have plummeted to their lowest level since the Watergate crisis and the oil embargo in 1973, while US house prices are now falling at the fastest pace since records began. The Case-Shiller index of home prices in the 20 largest US cities fell 10.7pc in January from a year earlier, with drops of 19.3pc in both Miami and Las Vegas. The price falls have already left nine million Americans facing negative equity in their houses. Separately, the US Conference Board released a...