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Santelli And Shiller On Housing, Animal-less Spirits, And Bernanke's Impotence
"We've seen rallies that fizzle before" is why Bob "I don't see the reason to call this a major turning point" Shiller is not calling the bottom in the housing market as he notes that while momentum helps, "right now it is partly seasonal" in an excellent reality-based discussion with CNBC's Rick Santelli. From the rise and fall of Greenspan's nationwide housing market correlations (not convinced this is anything but idiosyncratic) to the fact that a 'bottom' does not mean a recovery is coming and his expectations of longer-to-wait; the esteemed gentleman, dismissing concerns over rising interest rates and house prices - and pointing out how mortgage rates do not help forecast a house price recovery, makes a vital point: "Why the urgency" to buy a house? Despite the 'money for nothing', Shiller and Santelli explain there is "no way for Bernanke to change our 'animal spirits'" and his ZIRP is in fact psychologically damaging not invigorating. Absolute must watch!
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We are bottoming and go throw the floor into the sewer.
QE Biden
housing prices all depend on government regulations.
it is not a free market
california has plenty of land, but government restricts buildable zones and even less on education funding
meaning homes in good school districts are overpriced because nancy pelosi uses government power to overinflate her assets invested in real estate via her husband's real estate development company.
But Dimon Jim called a housing bottom earlier today and he put your money where is mouth is by reducing loan loss reserves for JPM's s RE holdings by almost a billion. If this wasn't the bottom then he never would have done that.
Stopped counting the endless bottom calls. I'll wait until the bottom callers throw in the towel.
http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/
An government regulations depen on the UN
Housing set to drop at least 75% from here. Imagine what the picture will be like when interest rates go through the roof and it becomes a cash and carry market. Not to mention how poor Americans will get when the bond/fiat/credit/debt/government/service sector bubble bursts.
...or dollar set to drop at least 75% from here while housing remains stable in nominal dollars. Realistically, I bet it lies somewhere in between the two.
Do I have to say this every time? Housing will drop 75% IN REAL TERMS. You can't measure any future price in dollars because the dollar is on a course to become worthless.
housing bottoming out while everyother thing increases 5-10%/year means
in real terms, housing assets LOST 5-10%
in Japan, people buy houses knowing that value will depreciate in real terms. It is just a matter of how much less depreciation.
home ownership = you have to buy bunch of shit to fill it AND pay 1-3% TAX every year!!!!!
buy what you need, rest of the money should go with most productive investments.
First, it depends on the market. Second, I don't think you will see and additional 75% from here (excluding nuclear war). The rent/own ratio is pretty favorable to own in many markets. I think you will see a stealth easing of credit standards by Fannie, Freddie and FHA to encourage more sales. Prices will bounce around the current level (up 5% or down 5%). In many areas prices have stabilized at cost of production, the variable seems to be lot prices.
Sounds like Ben or CONgress needs to subsidize building materials and labor!
Or better yet, set a new minimum wage in construction!!!
Housing prices have nothing to do with the cost of construction. Housing prices come from supply and demand. Housing is WAAYYYY overbuilt due to ultra low rates.
The next big business is going to be tearing down empty houses.
1) housing prices in attractive markets is all about land price the house sits on.
2) housing prices in unattractive market is all about construction price since land is almost worthless.
#2 can be artificially controlled by government restricting buildable land. not allowing supply of land to be free, so demand is propped up.
http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/
UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is implemented worldwide to inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all information, and all human beings in the world. INVENTORY AND CONTROL.SOUNDS LIKE SCIENCE FICTION...OR SOME CONSPIRACY THEORY...BUT IT ISN'T.
Have you wondered where these terms 'sustainability' and 'smart growth' and 'high density urban mixed use development' came from? Doesn't it seem like about 10 years ago you'd never heard of them and now everything seems to include these concepts? Is that just a coincidence? That every town and county and state and nation in the world would be changing their land use/planning codes and government policies to align themselves with...what?
First, before I get going, I want to say that yes, I know it's a small world and it takes a village and we're all one planet etc. I also know that we have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and that as cumbersome as that can be sometimes (Donald Rumsfeld said that the Chinese have it easy; they don't have to ask their people if they agree. And Bush Junior said that it would be great to have a dictator as long as he was the dictator), we have a three branch government and the Bill of Rights, Constitution, and self-determination. This is one of the reasons why people want to come to the US, right? We don't have Tiananmen Square here, generally speaking (yes, I remember Kent State--not the same, and yes, an outrage.) So I'm not against making certain issues a priority, such as mindful energy use, alternative energy sponsorship, recycling/reuse, and sensitivity to all living creatures.
But then you have UN Agenda 21. What is it? See our videos and radio shows at the bottom of this page (or search YouTube for Rosa Koire) or buy BEHIND THE GREEN MASK: U.N. Agenda 21 by Rosa Koire click here
CLICK TO PRINT OUT FLYER: WHY IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT UN AGENDA 21?
Considering its policies are woven into all the General Plans of the cities and counties, it's important for people to know where these policies are coming from. While many people support the United Nations for its peacemaking efforts, hardly anyone knows that they have very specific land use policies that they would like to see implemented in every city, county, state and nation. The specific plan is called United Nations Agenda 21 Sustainable Development, which has its basis in Communitarianism. By now, most Americans have heard of sustainable development but are largely unaware of Agenda 21.
In a nutshell, the plan calls for governments to take control of all land use and not leave any of the decision making in the hands of private property owners. It is assumed that people are not good stewards of their land and the government will do a better job if they are in control. Individual rights in general are to give way to the needs of communities as determined by the governing body. Moreover, people should be rounded up off the land and packed into human settlements, or islands of human habitation, close to employment centers and transportation. Another program, called the Wildlands Project spells out how most of the land is to be set aside for non-humans.
U.N. Agenda 21 cites the affluence of Americans as being a major problem which needs to be corrected. It calls for lowering the standard of living for Americans so that the people in poorer countries will have more, a redistribution of wealth. Although people around the world aspire to achieve the levels of prosperity we have in our country, and will risk their lives to get here, Americans are cast in a very negative light and need to be taken down to a condition closer to average in the world. Only then, they say, will there be social justice which is a cornerstone of the U.N. Agenda 21 plan.
Agenda 21 policies date back to the 70's but it got its real start in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro when President Bush signed onto it. President Clinton signed it later and continued the program in the United States. A non-governmental organization called the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives, ICLEI, is tasked with carrying out the goals of Agenda 21. Over 600 cities in the U.S. are members; our town joined in 2007. The costs are paid by taxpayers.
It's time that people educate themselves and read the document and related commentary. After that, get a copy of your city or county's General Plan and read it. You will find all sorts of policies that are nearly identical to those in U.N. Agenda 21. Unfortunately, their policies have advanced largely unnoticed and we are now in the end game. People need to identify their elected officials who are promoting the U.N.'s policies and hold them accountable for their actions. Only when we've identified who the people are and what they are trying to do will we be able to evaluate whether or not we approve of the policies they are putting forward. Some people may think it's appropriate for agencies outside the United States to set our policies and some people will not. The question is, aren't Americans able to develop their own policies? Should we rely on an organization that consists of member nations that have different forms of governments, most of which do not value individual rights as much as we do? It's time to bring U.N. Agenda 21 out in the open where we can have these debates and then set our own policies in accordance with our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The next big business is going to be tearing down empty houses.
Who will pay for the desctruction of capital?
Rents are going to head down, so be careful with (today's rent) to own ratio.
First, it depends on the market.
FEDbuster, That sounds so 2000ish. Today only muppets believe in market.
didn't California have 1 million real-estate agents (licensed) in the mid 2000s? Probably another half a million lining the intestinal walls of the mortage colon.
1 in 10 Americans live in California.
california have millions of all kinds of crazies.
nothing surprises long time california residents.
"no way for Bernanke to change our 'animal spirits'" and in fact his ZIRP is in fact psychologically damaging not invigorating
That's the money line, right there
MANBERNKRUG!
That's the destruction of the meaning of stored income. BernanKing plays PeKing from PrinceTown grinding independent and later-developing stored ideas, crippling future plans with deadened money. He's blessed by his Member BanKings in eliminating independent's power so his cohorts and enablers can have more serfs at the ready. Cripple money and cripple Freedom. BenanKing is a corporate tool destroying individual freedom.
Please don't be so cynical after that blow out expose by Plugs last night.
First post ever, bitchez! But is Shiller drunk, or is that normal for him?
If I was in his position, Bloody Mary's for breakfast would be my choice also :)
Sounds more like,his nose i full of Cia first quality,and the other shill,is on methamp:
And its money for nothing,great world we live in!
And Bitch them on that,girls!
It's normal for him.
That's just how these professors are.
He very well may be a little loopy if he thinks the Bernanke is 'well meaning'.
Shiller needs to get with the program and start a market food price index. Housing is done. No one cares about it anymore.
Harsh times ahead! That is certain. But for a CFD trader this doesn't matter much. More volatility in the markets is potentially bigger profits!
Shadow inventory not cleared.
Assessments coming in low intentionally to rob equity and get FHA backed loans through (again, for many who still can't really afford the place).
Or, those elites who benefit from FED cotton candy buying places to rent at exorbitant rates to those who lost their house when they got laid off.
It will take 20 years of this ZIRP bullshit market to clear things.
That is, if they can keep rates low.
When rates go up because it becomes clear the U.S.S.A. is insolvent, watch housing and the country go the way of Spain and Greece.
There are only two things that will resurrect the housing market. More jobs and more well paying jobs. Everything else is smoke and mirrors.
get rid of artificial regulation of where you can build and almost everyone will be able to afford housing and have money left over for other stuff.
housing eats up half of your after tax money because owners of US government....elite landholders....want you to pay overpay for their lot of shitty land.
Banksters need high prices. 1, for their portfolio. 2, to force muppets to take loans. Can't have free and clerk muppets. No telling what idea might befall them. No, all hampster stay on the wheel.
LOW, LOW, LOW PRICES.
Low prices is the only natural way to stimulate the market for homes. Remove all artifice, let prices crash to their natural level, then prices will stablize and become worth consideration.
Until the Federal Reserve is thoroughly discredited and its minions are banished back to hell, this market is going anywhere that hurts you and helps them.
They can talk about rates all they want, but when the banks refuse to lend houses aren't going to move. We have a couple of banks around here that will write nothing but Fannie and Freddie loans. If they can't sell it to the governmnet they aren't going to write the loan.
Ballpark, something like 90% of all mortgages run, backdroped by fedgov agencies. Fred, Fran, vets, HUD, FHA. Coupled with Bernanke ZIRP, you got a Weekend With Bernanke corpse housing market.
Cue Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch.
Anyone have any insight into the validity of what SilverDoctors posted about this Benton group saying silver will explode the 16th this month?
Paging Jim Kramer
I agree with Santelli. No urgency. People will sit on their hands. If people though interest rates were going up they would have to get off the sideline and step up to the plate and buy before it would cost them more. Because if people started to buy on higher interest rates, then house prices would also go up because the existing housing on the market would quickly disappear, which would cause a limited supply of houses to buy.
Bernanke has it backwards. But what do you expect from a Fed Chairman that only worries if Stocks go up. He has blinders on. I also wonder what possible personal gain he has in his decisions.
If interest rates start to go up then nobody with ANY amount of gray matter between their ears is going to buy a home because it will cause home prices to drop to the cellar and then they will just wait it out for a price bottom and buy then. The effect you mention might come about for a VERY brief amount of time and only in desirable locations. Low rates is the only thing keeping prices stable right now. Once that stops then all bets are off and home prices will tumble and make 2008 look like a dip. Better to buy when rates are high and home prices are at their lowest anyway.
And sometime in the next 10 years interest rates will go up. So why own an illiquid leveraged investment like housing?
Simple, utility. If you deleverage, downsize, or do what you have to do to mitigate any outstanding debt on your personal residence, then you have a cave from which to wage your war on inflation... that is probably protected by a myriad of homestead laws even if you should succumb to the financial monster.
Banks are taking a bath on anyone with good credit that can refinance at these low rates. They are losing higher interest loans and giving loans for 30 years at below par interest rates. They do keep the higher interest rate loans on the sub par borrowers but then they also are carrying the risk that those borrowers will default.
Banks are also losing on Credit Card interest for the good credit borrowers. Today you can switch your Credit Card for a total of 2% up front and 0% interest. I have done this many times. Although, I have paid off most of my Credit Card debt. But, the 3% up front interest has helped me to do exactly that.
Very wrong sir. The spread between the rate the banks pay for the mortgage and the APR charged to the borrower has almost never been higher.
The banks are making more money off 3.69% loans than they were with 7% loans. Not to mention the fees that have skyrocketed.
True.
Spreads have never been higher. FedRes is giving free money. Why'd JPM report so good, 'cause economy is so hot?
Housing prices are distorted from a certain fund buying all property in specific areas below a fixed dollar amount. This will drive up prices and they slowly sell back into an inflated market while renting the rest out. So this *improvement* in housing stats could very possibly be just a result of these kinds of games.
When are the rates gonna go up in the US? Wait for Japan to raise theirs... then add 20 years and mark that on your calendar.
I have been a housing bear for the past 5 yrs, and I must say that I underestimated the Fed/Banks ability to manipulate the market.
Mark to market
MBS purchasing/int rate manipulation
Inventory control
Govie subprime programs
I just dont see how they will let this housing "market" find it's true price point. Extend and pretend for the forseeable future.
Does anyone have a differeing opinion on this?
Never underestimate central planning, but the final outcome of a forced "economy" was always ugly.
At this point anyone outside the all cash buyer is pretty much screwed. I have been trying to refinance my FHA mortgage that closed in April of 2009. Obama put through a great program that almost nobody can actually use, the FHA streamline.
Turns out the FHA didn't execute my mortgage until June 12th making me ineligible for the refinance program. If I was it would mean a $200 a month savings to me. Instead I can refinance into another FHA loan but I would need to pay almost double the upfront mortgage insurance over my original loan $2800, and the monthly MI premium goes up to $118. In the end I would save about $30 a month with a lower interest rate, but the increased out of pocket closing costs eat that savings.
I can refinance into a conventional loan, but being more than 36 months out of my FHA loan I do not qualify for a refund of my PMI. I also need to pay for a new appraisal and at least $3500 in new closing costs. Unless I roll the costs into the new mortgage which will screw up my LTV ratio, perhaps making me ineligible for the loan. My PMI will be around $70, making my net savings around $90 with the new loan. Less if I roll the closing costs in.
The entire situtation is one giant clusterfuck. Which explains the skyrocketing number of refinance applications, but the neardead level of actual new loans.
If you bought your house to live in for the long haul, then all this hype is just idle chit chat. Like stocks, you don't lose money if you don't sell. Besides, I don't have any extra houses laying around to get worked up about the value of houses. My immediate focus is on November 6. After that, opening my pool next summer and seeing clean water.
If the housing market has turned the corner then shouldn't there be discussion about how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are no longer going to be under Federal Government 'conservatorship'?
If the housing market is coming around then perhaps I need to be reminded of why Ben Bernanke needs to purchase tens of billions of dollars worth of MBS every month?
Or are these things now just considered to be a permanent part of the "We're all Keynesians now" sheep shearing?
Notice how calm Santelli is when he's speaking to someone who is rooted in the real world, unlike, say, Liesman?
HAR and other vested interests repeatedly call we are at the bottom.... until their is a new bottom...with housing bottom hemoroids.
before the end of this year there will an " event".
Just like in 2001. You can bet your bullions on that!