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August 25, 2008Sale housing & credit on the brink, how about apartments…
Analysis of: An Economy on the Brink | www.usnews.com
Author: Paul Burns, Owner, City Investments
Mr. Zuckerman, the Editor-In-Chief, writes persuasively here of declining, nay plummeting, home prices and new home construction and of the possible passing of the U.S. auto industry and of healthcare funding problems. He makes the point that 10 million home mortgages exceed the value of the underlying...
August 8, 2008How to be an optimist
Analysis of: The Other Shoe... | www.us-banker.com
Author: Paul Burns, Owner, City Investments
The news here is that the chickens are coming to roost in one of the largest misapplications of capital yet. Commercial real estate is overdone in most every sector and market and the banks of this country are among the culprits. Ratios of three and more times capital lead to predictions...
July 15, 2008America Supplies Its Drug Dealers
Analysis of: Arming the Drug Wars | www.portfolio.com
Author: Paul Burns, Owner, City Investments
As it turns out, gun dealers in Phoenix are supplying some/a bunch of the weapons which are being used in the drug wars below the Mexican border. The Mexican Cartels send $ 15 Billion drugs to the U.S. and transports $ 10 Billion cash back to Mexico over the border. As the article also tells...
July 15, 2008Tying The Pieces Together In This Declining Economy
Analysis of: Blackstone's Peterson Backs Film on U.S. Debt Through Nonprofit | www.bloomberg.com
Author: Paul Burns, Owner, City Investments
The Peter G. Peterson foundation will confront the dangers of America’s $ 9.5 Trillion national debt. The article quotes Peterson as saying “Over time, taxes would have to double to pay for the debt and that's unthinkable''.
July 9, 2008Back to the 50’s …
Analysis of: Envisioning a world of $200-a-barrel oil | www.latimes.com
Author: Paul Burns, Owner, City Investments
Changes to housing, autos, urban planning, public transportation, carpooling, consumer goods and retailing, manufacturing, restaurants, agriculture, mining and utility providers are coming. There will be suppliers close to the ultimate user, zero or virtual mobility for workers and local vacations...
July 8, 2008Housing Market Costs Coming To Roost Now
Analysis of: Fix Congress’s Housing Fix | www.usnews.com
Author: Paul Burns, Owner, City Investments
The public is now going to be asked to support the housing mania of the 1st years of this century with tax look-backs to previous profits, with extended activity by the quasi-public lenders, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and with government backing for loans written down to 85% of the new appraisal. ...
July 8, 2008How Long Is This Going To Take?
Analysis of: Bank Job | www.portfolio.com
Author: Paul Burns, Owner, City Investments
This article notes the recent statement building financing of financial institutions and concludes its opening remarks with “I don’t know, you don’t know, and they don’t know”. The article states the assumptions of current bank recapitalizations and in particular recaps the Bear Stearns acquisition. ...
June 23, 2008Commercial Real Estate Recourse Financing
Analysis of: Guarantee Gamble: Developers Dread Return of Recourse | online.wsj.com
Author: Paul Burns, Owner, City Investments
There were names like Fox & Carskadon, McNeil and Consolidated Capital among the biggest income property acquisition syndicators in the 70’s and 80’s, but no more. And no more are thousands of other syndicators of that era big and small, who generally fell by the wayside as they could not...
June 23, 2008American Demographics
Analysis of: The American Dream Goes On | www.usnews.com
Author: Paul Burns, Owner, City Investments
The referenced article begins with the now usual doomsday message which many including this writer have now exhausted ad nauseam. Three relatively short paragraphs later, the Editor-in-Chief wraps up the forgone conclusions neatly and attempts to move on to some new meat. You can read the...
June 16, 2008Hopw long wil our finacial institutions take to recover?
Analysis of: After $4.6 Billion in Losses Head Says FHA May Have To Shut Down | www.therealestatebloggers.com
Author: Paul Burns, Owner, City Investments
Three years after the change in the residential market, we have now come to the failure of the financial institutions which have supported the real estate backed consumer goods market of the recent past. You might just as well have written the article about FNMA or FHLMC, as the same solvency...
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