SP 500 Daily Chart: Pete and Repeat Were on a Boat...

Just another day doing God's work on earth...

"Hello Lloyd? Yeah, Larry and I were talking, and we would like to see the market go up, not too fast, but on a nice gentle slope, within a range.
Whatever gains you make doing this are yours to keep. Ben will supply the liquidity. We need to make it look like the Administration's policies are working.
And most Americans will think they are if the stock market is up."

Alternative View: Housing Prices Have Fallen Significantly Towards the Trend

Here is the graph associated with a view of the deflating housing bubble that shows we have appreciably fallen, further than the 25% in the blog entry from yesterday.



For the details on this view read here.

It appears that both sets of numbers, the ones above and the ones from yesterday, have been adjusted somewhat.

The numbers from yesterday are Indexed to 1980 = 100, and are therefore a percentage of increase.

The numbers above are nominal prices, and then adjusted for inflation using some governmental measure presumably.

One appears to be based on median prices, and the other on total transactions.

I have not yet reconciled the two views, as I am rather tired and 'under the weather,' compliments of the children's propensity to bring home their sniffles and sneezes at this time of year, the head colds that seem to linger endlessly, despite the repeated application of vitamins, chicken soup, sudafed, ibuprofen, and the occasional sip of Beaujolais Noveau. But for today at least I am, like Mr. Buffett is to the economic recovery, 'all in.'

And yes, I did finally break down and listen to the spouse, obtaining a swine flu vaccination. Perhaps it will help me think like a Fed banker and figure out their gameplan. lol.

Have Home Prices Only Fallen 1/4 of the Way to Trend?

Interesting chart to say the least.

Ben is pumping the money buttons so hard that the trend may be realized a bit higher in nominal terms once inflation kicks in.

But it may not yet be the best time to buy that new home, unless it is done for a primary residence, and with great care.

As forecast here several times earlier this year, commercial real estate will be a train wreck in 2010. That should help housing find another leg down.

New Observations.net
Values Have Fallen Only 25% of the Fall Needed to Reach Trend
By Michael White
November 11, 2009

PRICE TRENDS / WAR OF THE WORLDS (Part 4): Property owners nationwide have lost only one dollar for every four dollars they can ultimately expect to lose on their home...



Read the rest here.

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