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  • Why Size Doesn't Matter in the Bathroom Anymore Thursday, 11 Mar 2010 | 4:36 PM ET
    Bathroom

    The American Institute of Architects reports that, "functionality is now preferred to more and larger bathrooms within U.S. homes." Functionality. How banal.

  • Will Los Angeles Go Broke? Thursday, 11 Mar 2010 | 4:23 PM ET

    The City of Angels is facing a $200 million budget deficit in the current fiscal year which will grow another half billion next year. The city will owe $399 million next year just in debt service, and it faces about $6 billion in underfunded pensions and healthcare costs for its retired employees.

  • U.S. mortgage applications inched higher this month, the Dow Jones real estate index rose 114 percent since the 2009 March lows and foreclosure filings rose 6 percent in February from a year ago, the smallest increase in four years. Is the real estate sector the place to invest again? Jay Leupp, senior portfolio manager at Grubb & Ellis, and Paul Curbo, portfolio manager at Invesco AIM, discussed their sector insights.

  • Stocks Open Lower; Citi Rises Again Thursday, 11 Mar 2010 | 10:16 AM ET

    Stocks slipped at the open Thursday after the government said weekly jobless claims fell but not as much as analysts had anticipated.

  • Futures Slide After Letdown From Jobs Thursday, 11 Mar 2010 | 8:43 AM ET

    Stock index futures were treading water Thursday after posting a slight a gain Wednesday on the back of gains in financial stocks.

  • Mortgage Insurers Won't Pay on Bad Loans Wednesday, 10 Mar 2010 | 2:36 PM ET

    Mortgage insurers are rescinding (denying) claims, claiming themselves that the loans were fraudulent and misrepresented to them.

  • Another Bull-Market Year? Wednesday, 10 Mar 2010 | 11:37 AM ET

    The key question facing investors right now — on the anniversary of a record-breaking stock surge, the best in 75 years — is whether we’re headed for a second bull-market year?

  • The Argument For Mortgage Principal Reduction Tuesday, 9 Mar 2010 | 5:08 PM ET

    Big surprise that yesterday's blog garnered quite a few responses, not just on the page, but from folks here in DC who are involved in all those closed-door negotiations at Administration office buildings.

  • What Do You Do With Detroit? Bulldoze It Tuesday, 9 Mar 2010 | 1:35 PM ET
    Foreclosures signs  in Detroit

    Have you ever wondered what will become of Detroit? There's one radical plan out there — and it's coming from the mayor himself.

  • Why I Can Still Find Optimism in This Story Tuesday, 9 Mar 2010 | 11:43 AM ET

    I do believe that this great stock market rally over the past year — the S&P 500 is up 68 percent and economy-sensitive small-caps are up 95 percent — is in part telling us that political regime change is coming our way this November.

  • Bailout or Buffett: Which Offers the Better Return? Monday, 8 Mar 2010 | 10:21 PM ET

    The US government may be sitting on the best value portfolio around.

  • Cramer: Retail Investors, Get in the Game Now! Monday, 8 Mar 2010 | 6:20 PM ET

    The Mad Money host can’t understand why people are sitting out this generational bull market.

  • Mortgage Principal Writedown Won't Save Housing Monday, 8 Mar 2010 | 4:19 PM ET
    Gavel

    Politicians want to keep borrowers in the homes because that's the compassionate thing to do. The big bad banks just want to cut their losses right? Well, maybe not.

  • In this commentary I will explain why I’m cautious; how I could be wrong; what’s at stake for me and my clients; and how we’re invested.

  • The Cyclical Recovery Continues Friday, 5 Mar 2010 | 5:15 PM ET

    We’re not gonna get a barnburner recovery such as we saw in 1983-84 when Reagan slashed tax rates. Obviously not, since Obama’s Washington is moving in an anti-supply-side direction.

  • I jokingly refer to him as "Mr. Happy" because he's such a downer, but he's someone who calls it as he sees it. During his speech he put up a picture of Michael Jackson and told the audience, "Why did Michael Jackson die? Because he surrounded himself with people who told him what he wanted to hear."

  • Sweet REIT Rewards Friday, 5 Mar 2010 | 2:34 PM ET

    Retail is flailing under job losses and consequent weak consumer spending, and rock-bottom priced housing is forcing rental rates down and vacancies up in the apartment sector. How could REITs in these sectors be performing so well?

  • Don't Buy Realtors' Weather Excuse Thursday, 4 Mar 2010 | 12:02 PM ET

    Today the National Association of Realtors reported an unexpected 7.6 percent monthly drop in its Pending Homes Sales Index in January.

  • Washington to Wall Street Mishmash Wednesday, 3 Mar 2010 | 2:47 PM ET
    Jim Bunning

    Sen. Jim Bunning was right all along. He was just trying to get the Senate to enforce its own pay-go budget rule and actually find $10 billion of spending cuts out of a $3.5 trillion budget to pay for extended unemployment benefits and other items in a catch-all spending bill.

  • A Sign of Spring in Housing? Wednesday, 3 Mar 2010 | 1:34 PM ET
    Sold sign

    I've been talking to a lot of Realtors this week, who tell me that there are definitely folks out there kicking the tires, but it's all about price point.