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05/18/2012 - Half Of Americans Are Spending More Than They Earn, But Don't Realize It: Survey - Part of the problem may be that a lot of Americans don't see saving as part of their lifestyle. Half of those surveyed do not set monthly savings goals for themselves, according to the Rasmussen survey. Of those who are spending more than they earn, 36 percent are dipping into savings, 22 percent use a credit card and 8 percent are borrowing money in other ways. - www.huffingtonpost.com

04/29/2012 - Interactive Map: South Florida - Does a bank own property near you? - At the end of March, banks and other financial entities owned thousands of properties in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties. Click on the map for address, the owner's name and other details. For aerial photos, use the "Satellite" selection and zoom in. - www.sun-sentinel.com

Does a bank own property near you? Tri-County
Interactive Map: Does a bank own property near you? Tri-County

Information is as of late March, and ownership may have changed since then. For more details about a property, visit the: Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser's website.
Broward County Property Appraiser's website.
Palm Beach County Property Appraiser's website.

04/29/2012 - Bank Of America, Goldman And Others' Insanely Large Derivative Holdings Visualized [INFOGRAPHIC] - Roughly a decade ago, billionaire Warren Buffett pronounced derivatives, or securities based on a contract between parties, "financial weapons of mass destruction," saying they carried "potentially lethal" dangers within them. Still today that derivatives market appears as daunting as ever, especially thanks to Oto Godrey's Demonocracy.info, an economic infographic site. In fact, if the nine banks with the largest derivatives holdings turned them into piles of cold hard cash, most said holdings would stack higher than the headquarters of the corporations they belong to. - www.huffingtonpost.com
Read More: Derivatives: The Unregulated Global Casino for Banks

04/29/2012 - These 10 Companies Control Enormous Number Of Consumer Brands [INFOGRAPHICS] - It may be obvious that Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes are both made by Kellogg's, but did you know that Hot Pockets and L'Oreal share a parent company in Nestlé? A ginormous number of brands are controlled by just 10 multinationals, according to this amazing infographic from French blog Convergence Alimentaire. Now we can see just how many products are owned by Kraft, Coca-Cola, General Mills, Kellogg's, Mars, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, P&G and Nestlé. - www.huffingtonpost.com

These 10 Companies Control Basically Everything You Consume
These 10 Companies Control Basically Everything You Consume

04/29/2012 - World's Longest Invoice: Freelancers Union Kicks Off Campaign To Highlight Unpaid Work - Freelancers who don’t get paid until after their work is done always risk getting burned by clients. Brooke Dixon, a Long Island Web developer who is no longer holding his breath on the $45,000 he’s owed from four years of freelancing, now knows what to look for. “There are very consistent signs,” he says. “Phone calls are returned less frequently. E-mails don’t get returned. I can kind of see what’s going to happen.” - www.huffingtonpost.com

04/29/2012 - THINK YOU HAVE IT BAD? These Countries Pay The Highest Tax Burdens In The World - American taxpayers paid an average of 29.5 percent of their incomes in taxes and social security, but out of a consortium of 34 countries known as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 24 nations have a higher tax and social security burden than the United States, according to the OECD. - www.huffingtonpost.com

04/29/2012 - Women Presidents' Organization Announces 50 Fastest-Growing Women-Owned Companies - The fifth-annual ranking includes businesses from all over North America that generated a combined $4 billion in revenue in 2011 and employed 26,883 people. "This year’s Top 50 list is our most diverse ranking ever, with 20 states represented and companies ranging from precious metal dealers to food service distributors," Marsha Firestone, president and founder of the WPO, said in a statement. - www.huffingtonpost.com

04/27/2012 - Nearly Half Of Couples Lie To Each Other About Money - Hiding purchases in the back of the closet and withdrawing money from joint bank accounts without telling their partners were just a few of the ways couples said they'd fibbed about finances. Women, it turns out, were the worse offenders, out-lying the men 56 percent to 37 percent, according to TODAY.com. According to the survey, the most common thing women were untruthful about was shopping, such as saying something was bought on sale when it was actually full price. - www.huffingtonpost.com

04/26/2012 - Wealthy Young Adults More Likely Than Poorer Peers To Live At Home - The discrepancy is largely explained by the fact that young adults from poorer backgrounds tend to be financially independent because they have few other options. Low-income families are often either unwilling or simply unable to continue supporting their children into adulthood, said Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark, a co-author of the study. - www.huffingtonpost.com

Surprising Group More Likely To Live With Parents
Surprising Group More Likely To Live With Parents

04/20/2012 - The Top 9 Spam-Sending Countries: See Where All That Junk Is Coming From - Few people know the true origins of the tradition of getting high at 4:20, but everybody needs to know seven and a half things each day. Here they are: - www.huffingtonpost.com

04/20/2012 - Here Come's The Economy's 19th Nervous Breakdown: Seven And A Half Things To Know - Few people know the true origins of the tradition of getting high at 4:20, but everybody needs to know seven and a half things each day. Here they are: - www.huffingtonpost.com

04/17/2012 - Ugh: Many Homes Worth Less Than It Costs To Build Them | Third Of Homes Now Worth Less Than What They Cost To Build: Report - That’s bad news in a market where housing sales are already far from robust. Persistently low prices and an overall climate of economic uncertainty are keeping many would-be homebuyers from taking the plunge. The lack of momentum in the housing market, in turn, is thought to be a major factor keeping the economy in low gear -- not to mention crowding out low-income renters as more and more people are skittish about buying. - www.newyorker.com

04/13/2012 - Inequality 101: The Picket Fence and the Staircase - The bar chart shows how during the so-called "Golden Era" of 1947-1973, the inflation-adjusted incomes of the rich, the poor, and the middle class grew in a pretty similar manner-hence, it looks a bit like a picket fence. The bar chart for the period from 1973 to 1993 looks more like a staircase. During that time, the incomes of households in the bottom forty per cent of the income distribution actually fell, the middle stagnated, and upper-income households gained, but not as much as they had during the Golden Era. (I wasn't the first to use the picket-fence metaphor. I got the idea from Paul Krugman.) - www.newyorker.com

The Picket Fence and the Staircase
The Picket Fence and the Staircase

04/08/2012 - By the Numbers: A Revealing Look at the Mortgage Mod Meltdown - For the past year, we've been digging into the administration's fumbling efforts. We've crunched a lot of numbers along the way, and now we're sharing what we found - including loads of previously unreported data. - www.propublica.com

03/21/2012 - HSH Mortgage Calculator Shows When You'll Break Even On Your Mortgage - As a practical matter being underwater can be financially paralyzing. If you need to sell your house, you might actually have to pay the bank to take it off your hands. Emotionally, living underwater is essentially the American Dream in reverse. A nightmare in which your (probably) largest financial asset might never regain its value. To help sort it out, HSH, a company that conducts independent research into mortgage loans, has launched a new calculator to help determine when you'll get back to the break-even point on your home loan. - www.huffingtonpost.com
Underwater Calculator: "When will I finally be above water again?"

03/13/2012 - Nearly A Third Of Workers Have Less Than $1,000 In Savings - If you stopped working and had to live off what you had in the bank, could you do it? For many Americans, the answer is a definite "no." Nearly a third of all workers polled in a recent survey said they have less than a thousand dollars in savings. Another third say they have some money saved, but it's not more than $25,000. And fewer and fewer people are setting money aside for retirement. - www.huffingtonpost.com

02/01/2012 - 10 States With Biggest Foreclosure Problems - The national foreclosure crisis might be headed in the right direction, but it's still got a ways to go. The percentage of loans in foreclosure fell in the last quarter of 2011 to 4.38 percent, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's Mortgage Delinquency Survey. The survey examined 42.9 million loans on one- to four-unit residential properties. It also found that the percentage late on their mortgage payments to be down as well. - www.huffingtonpost.com

02/09/2012 - Credit cards from hell - Here are 9 credit cards that industry experts told CNNMoney are among the worst in America for their sky-high interest rates and ridiculous fees. - www.cnn.com

02/09/2012 - 7 best cards for bad credit - These 7 credit cards are the superheroes of the banking world, say industry experts, providing low fees and sane rates to people trying to build or repair their credit. - www.cnn.com

02/02/2012 - Home prices' slide extends into 3rd month - Nineteen of the 20 metropolitan areas tracked by the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index fell in November - the second consecutive month that every metro area other than Phoenix was down and the third consecutive month that the overall index has declined. The index fell 1.3 percent from October to November and 3.7 percent from November 2010. - www.247wallst.com

01/24/2012 - Ten States with the Worst Mortgage Debt - Most of the states on our list have extremely high mortgage debt because of the size of their initial mortgages. States like Connecticut and Massachusetts, which have among the highest median home values in the U.S., also have among the highest mortgage debt. Hawaii, which has the second-highest average mortgage debt per person, has the highest median home value of $525,400. - www.247wallst.com

01/15/2012 - The 10 Most Hated Companies In America - Customers, employees, shareholders and taxpayers hate large corporations for many reasons. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a lengthy list of corporations for which there is substantial research data to choose the 10 most hated in America. - www.247wallst.com

01/02/2012 - America's Nine Newest Cities - New cities, towns, and villages are created each year in the United States. They’re not necessarily new settlements, and are more often areas within a county that decide to incorporate. According to data collected by 24/7 Wall St. from the U.S. Census Bureau, nine new municipalities have incorporated in the last two years. - www.247wallst.com

09/09/2011 - Six Reasons Americans Fall Out Of The Middle Class: 24/7 Wall St. - Seems as though the American Dream is just that'a dream. If you were born into a middle class family, there is a high chance that you'll end up falling down the economic ladder into a lower class, according to a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts - www.247wallst.com

08/25/2011 - Best Places to Live Money's list of America's best small towns - PICK a STATE Best Places to Live Money's list of America's best small towns - www.cnn.com

08/25/2011 - Best places for affordable homes. - Residents who live in these 25 growing towns see their incomes go the furthest. - www.cnn.com

07/31/2011 - 10 Signs The Double-Dip Recession Has Begun - Page 1 - The US has entered a second recession. It may not be as bad as the first. Economists say that the Great Recession began in December 2007 and lasted until July 2009. That may be the way that the economy was seen through the eyes of experts, but many Americans do not believe that the 2008-2009 downturn ever ended. A Gallup poll released in April found that 29% of those queried thought the economy was in a "depression" and 26% said that the original recession had persisted into 2011. - www.247wallst.com
Additional Read: 10 Signs The Double-Dip Recession Has Begun - Page 2
10 Signs The Double-Dip Recession Has Begun - Page 3

07/29/2011 Meet the countries in the Triple-A debt club - Only 17 countries in the world -- currently including the U.S. -- hold the highly coveted triple-A rating from both Standard & Poor's and Moody's. (S&P rates an additional three countries as triple-A, that aren't featured on Moody's list - www.cnn.com

Meet the countries in the Triple-A debt club
Meet the countries in the Triple-A debt club

07/09/2011 The Top 10 Low-Down Dirtiest Divorce Tricks - Divorce is an emotional rollercoaster, and when people are really hurting, particularly if they have been "swapped" for somebody else, self-preservation becomes all-important. For some, however, this state of mind can lead to an all-consuming desire for vengeance. - www.huffingtonpost.com

07/05/2011 States Where Underwater Mortgages Are Sinking Home Values - To date, 14.5% of Ohio residences are vacant. Worse still, more than 21% of mortgages in the state are currently underwater, while another 6.3% are nearly underwater. This is one of the largest portions of homeowners on the brink of negative equity. - www.financialfinesse.com

06/25/2011 2011 Financial Stress Research (CHARTS) - An estimated 60% of illness is directly or indirectly caused by financial stress, costing most large and medium sized companies millions of dollars per year in health care expenses. - www.financialfinesse.com

06/24/2011 The new American dream home: Prices in 11 cities - The average size of new homes shrunk by about 5% from 2007 to 2010 and far fewer mega-homes are being built. The number of homes 4,000 square-feet or larger built in 2010 fell to 35,000 from more than 120,000 in 2007. - www.cnn.com

06/23/2011 Asia Now Has More MIllionaires Than Europe, Closing In On North America - The Asia-Pacific region was home to 3.3 million people in 2010 worth $1 million or more, excluding their homes, an increase of roughly 10 percent from the year before, according to the 15th annual World Wealth Report by Merrill Lynch's wealth management division and consultancy Capgemini. - www.huffingtonpost.com

06/16/2011 Bankruptcy Blunders: Top Reasons Your Bankruptcy Filing May Be Rejected - A recent FindLaw.com survey revealed that one in eight Americans, or 13% of us, have considered filing for bankruptcy protection. And in 2010 alone, 1.5 million U.S. consumers declared bankruptcy, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute. While filing for Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy can be a way to help you reduce unmanageable debts, not everyone's case is accepted by bankruptcy courts. - www.walletpop.com

06/09/2011 - 10 Years Later, How Bush-Era Tax Cuts Changed America [CHARTS] - To mark the ten-year anniversary of the tax cuts, extended last year for both upper- and middle-class Americans in a deal to reauthorize unemployment insurance, the non-partisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities published five graphs illustrating how the cuts have changed America, and will continue to do so in the future. What they find is unevenly distributed benefits. - www.huffingtonpost.com

Effect On After-Tax Income. Bush tax cuts heavily tilted to the top
Bush tax cuts heavily tilted to the top 10%

06/05/2011 - U.S. States, Localities Not Providing Economy With Their Usual Boost (VIDEO) - Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisors notes that when states cut spending to balance their budgets, as required annually, a ripple effect multiplies the damage: Companies that do business with states and localities suffer. These companies, in turn, scale back their own hiring. - www.usatoday.com

05/31/2011 - More than 500 cities see more homes become rentals (CHART) - Nationally, 34.9% of occupied homes were rented in 2010 compared with 33.8% in 2000, according to Census data. Percentages of homes rented in cities with at least 50,000 people. The shift to rental housing is potentially long-lasting and portends changes for neighborhood stability and how people build wealth, economists say. - www.usatoday.com

05/30/2011 - Where is America's cheapest real estate?PLAY - Where is America's cheapest real estate? Youngstown OH, Ocala, FL. - www.cnn.com

05/30/2011 - 10 dirt-cheap housing markets - With growth so stagnant, there's a large stock of existing homes with many on the market, which has kept a lid on prices. They will continue to fall most of 2011 before beginning a modest upturn next year. - www.cnn.com

05/27/2011 - Florida Foreclosure Process - Understanding the Florida foreclosure process - http://www.sun-sentinel.com  

05/19/2011 - Over Half Of Americans Don't Expect Housing Recovery Until 2014, Survey Finds - According to a new survey, conducted by Harris Interactive survey and released by Truilia and RealtyTrac, 54 percent of U.S. adults said they don't expect the housing market to recover before 2014. Just six months ago, in November, 34 percent of those surveyed said it would take until 2014. - www.huffingtonpost.com

05/12/2011 - 10 CEOs Who Got Rich By Squeezing Workers - CHART - he insecurity of the middle class has a lot to do with how executives are paid. Bonuses pegged to stock prices encourage CEOs to mercilessly outsource and downsize, slashing costs to boost profits. The result is that more corporate leaders are getting paid at the expense of average workers. Here are 10 of the worst offenders: - www.motherjones.com

10 CEOs Who Got Rich By Squeezing Workers
10 CEOs Who Got Rich By Squeezing Workers

05/11/2011 - 10 Cities Where Home Prices Are Falling The Fastest: Clear Capital - Looking farther back, home prices have now hit their lowest point in two years, falling 0.7 percent below March 2009 levels, according to a recent report by Clear Capital. And that finding, the report contends, would seem to indicate that the housing market has all but officially double dipped. - www.huffingtonpost.com

05/09/2011 - CHART: Consumer Debt Stops Declining After Nine Consecutive Quarters [CHARTS] - According to an accompanying blog post by authors Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee and Wilbert van der Klaauw, was small, yet significant "signs of healing" among U.S. consumers. Total levels of consumer debt "held essentially steady" in the first months of the years, after declining for the previous nine quarters, spanning over 27 months. - www.huffingtonpost.com

Consumer Debt Stops Declining After Nine Consecutive Quarters
Consumer Debt Stops Declining After Nine Consecutive Quarters

05/04/2011 - Income Inequality Has Risen In Vast Majority Of Developed Countries -- Even In Sweden - Of the 50 most populated cities in the United States, New York remains the city where it's better to rent than buy. The Big Apple's competition? Fort Worth, Texas. According to Trulia's release, buying a home has become more affordable than renting an apartment in 80 percent of major cities. Besides New York and Fort Worth, only in Kansas city is renting the preferable option. Right behind those cities are Memphis, Los Angeles and San Francisco,. - www.huffingtonpost.com

Income Inequality Has Risen In Vast Majority Of Developed Countries
CLICK: What drives it and how can policy tackle it?

05/03/2011 - Where It's Better To Rent A Home Than Buy: Trulia - In a new report, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) finds that since the mid-1980s income inequality has increased in 77 percent, or 17 of the 22 surveyed countries. Across all OECD countries, the report found, the average income of the richest tenth of the population is now nine times that of the poorest tenth. - www.huffingtonpost.com

rent-to-buy ratios of fifty metropolitan cities:

05/03/2011 - 11 Companies With The Worst Reputations In America: Harris Interactive - A company's reputation is formed not only by the products it sells, but by the decisions it makes in times of crises. For some, that's a good thing. For others, some present on this list, not so much. Overall, companies in this year's survey ranked higher than the previous year, with 16 companies rated as "excellent" compared to only six last year - www.huffingtonpost.com

05/03/2011 - Top 10 Donald Trump Failures - Donald Trump is very proud of himself for forcing President Obama to release his birth certificate, ending the debate over whether he was legally fit to lead the country. But not everything the Donald has put his name behind has succeeded. TIME takes a look at some gambles that went bust - www.time.com

04/29/2011 - 10 places where housing is soaring - The U.S. real estate market might still be a mess, but in other parts of the world home prices are getting downright frothy. These countries saw the greatest jump in housing prices during the past year. - www.cnn.com

04/22/2011 - Housing market: Lending Tree ranks states from worst to best - North Dakota, with its 3.7 percent unemployment rate and average home price of $173,000, is the nation's healthiest housing market, according to LendingTree. Minnesota and New Hampshire round out the top three. LendingTree, an online loan marketplace, ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Let's just say Florida is pretty far down the list - www.sun-sentinel.com

04/22/2011 - Money And Trust: Richer, More Equal Countries Are More Trusting, Study Finds - People living in richer, more egalitarian countries trust their fellow human beings more, new data shows. Countries with high median household incomes are more trusting, generally, than countries with lower income levels. The United States is an exception to this trend. - www.huffingtonpost.com
Read More: "Percent of people expressing a high level of trust in others" contest

04/18/2011 - The Top 10 Tax Breaks -- And How They Help The Wealthy The Most - Few of the biggest breaks directly benefit corporate America. Most are widely distributed among the population and are meant to reward and encourage what is generally considered responsible behavior. Each break also represents a powerful, and in some cases broad-based, constituency. - www.huffingtonpost.com

04/09/2011 - How to Pay No Taxes - Eleven shelters, dodges, and rolls-all perfectly legal-used by America's wealthiest people. For the well-off, this could be the best tax day since the early 1930s: Top tax rates on ordinary income, dividends, estates, and gifts will remain at or near historically low levels for at least the next two years. That's thanks in part to legislation passed in December 2010 by the 111th Congress and signed by President Barack Obama. - www.businessweek.com

04/05/2011 - America's Ten Most Fraud-Ridden States - Clever criminals have ways to stay ahead of their victims' defenses. The computer has become one of the main sources of fraud against consumers. Companies like online protection software operations McAfee and Symantec would not have businesses otherwise. Consumer activists would not harass social media sites like Facebook and Twitter about their unwillingness to guard the identity of their users. - www.247wallst.com

04/05/2011 - 15 Facts About U.S. Income Inequality That Everyone Should Know (CHARTS) - And while the debate continues over cause and consequence, that central claim has proven unshakable: the gulf between the wealth of America's richest and poorest is widening, and few signs show any indication of it slowing. "Economists are not sure how to fully explain the growing inequality in America," Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz writes in a new piece for Vanity Fair this week. "But one big part of the reason we have so much inequality is that the top 1 percent want it that way." - www.openforum.com

04/03/2011 - CHART: The Rise Of Women-Owned Businesses [Infographic] - Here's a snapshot from the report of the growth trajectory of women-owned businesses nationwide since 1997. - www.openforum.com

CHART: S&P/Case-Shiller Home price Indices
CHART: The Rise Of Women-Owned Businesses

04/01/2011 - Increase In Housing Quality And Its Effect On Home Values: 1940-2010 [CHART] - Median home value calculated by the U.S. Census factors in all of these changes and covers the housing markets in both rural and urban areas. The historical price index created by Robert Shiller, however, looks at home prices as an investment (like stocks), focusing on the resale prices of a subset of the standard, unchanged houses in large metro areas. - www.huffingtonpost.com

04/01/2011 - Yuri Milner House: Russian Billionaire Buys Most Expensive US Home Ever - Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, a big investor in Facebook, daily deal website Groupon and "Farmville" game maker Zynga, bought the lavish, 25,500-square-foot mansion in Los Altos Hills, Calif. The sale is believed to be one of the largest in U.S. history for a single-family home. - www.huffingtonpost.com

03/30/2011 - Home Prices Fall Again -- 11 Cities Where Home Prices Hit New Lows - The much-feared "double-dip" in housing may finally be here, as home prices in 11 major U.S. cities reached new lows in December, according to data released today. Home prices across 20 major U.S. cities have fallen drastically over the last year, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index released Tuesday. - www.huffingtonpost.com


Additional Read:
Bloomberg - Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Fell 3.1% From Year Earlier

03/29/2011 - CHART: Why house prices will keep falling - Unless Ben Bernanke sets off a big inflation wave, house prices are doomed to keep falling for years. Tuesday's release of the monthly Case-Shiller U.S. house price index shows a 3.1% year-over-year decline for January. The index of 20 big U.S. cities fell to 140, just a point and change above its spring 2009 low in the wake of the financial meltdown. - www.cnn.com

03/29/2011 - Mortgage Contract Signings Rise In February Despite Low Home Sales - Sales agreements for homes rose 2.1 percent last month to a reading of 90.8, according to the National Association of Realtors' pending home sales index released Monday. Sales rose in every region but the Northeast. - www.huffingtonpost.com

03/26/2011 - How Unemployment Is Dragging Down The Housing Market (CHART) - Home sales are being dragged down by the weakness of the labor market and the number of Americans who have grown too discouraged to look for work, economists say. In previous recoveries, the housing market has sometimes buoyed the economy, creating new jobs and driving economic growth. This time, however, the housing market is now lagging behind. - www.huffingtonpost.com

03/24/2011 - CHART: Your Home's Value Never Actually Rose - A $10,000 house in 1890 would be worth almost the same in real dollars in 2010, but more than $350,000 in nominal dollars in 2010. Which matters to the home seller, real or nominal prices? If a seller is holding a mortgage then the question is: Can I sell for more or less than I owe? - www.huffingtonpost.com

02/29/2011 - 12 Depressing Facts About The Massive Housing Slump That Just Won't End - The data on the 2010 housing market is in, and it doesn't look good. High unemployment, record bankruptcies and dropping prices are just a few of the issues nagging home sales. Thus 2011 might not be the year the recovery finally comes. - www.businessinsider.com

Leaning apartment building epitomizes falling housing prices
Leaning apartment building epitomizes falling housing prices

02/10/2011 - The 10 States Running Out Of Smart People: - In the past decade, these states have declining math and reading scores, lower numbers of people with bachelor's degrees, and comparatively fewer residents who hold white collar jobs. - www.247wallst.com

02/05/2011 - 10 Areas Where Home Prices Actually Rose During The Recession - The markets in which home prices have risen since the market collapsed are not concentrated in one part of the country. They share a few things in common. The first is that one or two industries or companies which have continued to do well through the recession employ many local residents. Government jobs fall into this category. Some cities on the list have large universities, state, or federal government offices located within them. - www.247wallst.com

01/28/2011 - The 13 Major Cities Where Foreclosures Soared Last Year - Foreclosure activity increased in 149 of the country's 206 largest metropolitan areas last year, RealtyTrac found. Even cities that were initially shielded from the the worst of the foreclosure crisis have now seen big jumps in foreclosure activity, AP notes. Job loss has become the leading cause of the increase. - www.huffingtonpost.com

01/28/2011 - Foreclosure pain index: 10 cities - Despite being four years after the housing bust, the foreclosure plague has continued to spread. Here's how the country's 10 biggest cities are faring. - www.cnn.com

01/26/2011 - The 8 least-evil banks - As banks take turns inventing new fees and hiking existing ones, you may think there's no escaping your bank's dirty tricks. But we found 8 with zero ATM fees, free checking and high-yielding accounts. - www.cnn.com

Where does your state rank? - Americans everywhere are feeling the recession's pain - some more than others. - www.cnn.com

10/21/2010 - WATCH: Time-Lapse Video Shows Rise Of Food Stamp Use - The video's creator, Zero Hedge's John Lohman, points to the alarming levels -- food stamps now feed a record 43 million -- and warns that the program is the only thing keeping Americans from going "postal." Sinatra's upbeat tune "I've Got The World By A String" serves as an especially disturbing soundtrack. - www.huffingtonpost.com A regional look at poverty in America
CLICK to ENLARGE: Where Poverty Is Rising In America? (INFOGRAPHIC)

10/17/2010 - The 11 Reasons People Can't Sell Their Homes - The clamor over flawed foreclosure paperwork and robo-signers could further chill the housing market. People who might buy have bought a home in foreclosure will now worry about obtaining proper documentation and effective transfer of title. - www.247wallst.com

10/14/2010 - 5 Reasons Why Home Buyers Aren't Buying - Nevertheless, pending home sales are barely creeping up, reflecting what the National Association of Realtors calls a "gradual improvement" in home sales. So, what's stopping buyers from running out to grab up all these affordable homes at affordable rates? - www.walletpop.com

10/09/2010 - Where Will The Housing Market Impact Congressional Elections? (CHART) - Anyone who's followed politics over the last several months has undoubtedly heard the media refrain that the economy will dominate 2010 mid-term elections. After the escalating job crisis, however, the housing market may one of the bigger factors in voters' minds. With home sales upended by a halt on foreclosures by lenders like Bank Of America and PNC, there's increasingly little optimism in the housing market. - www.huffingtonpost.com

08/29/2010 - 'Third World America': Where People Are Suffering, Bouncing Back INTERACTIVE - Add Your Story.. See More News From 'Third World America' - www.huffingtonpost.com

08/24/2010 - 8 Cities Where Home Prices Fell The FASTEST In The Last Year (PHOTOS) - If you're still reeling from today's grim data from the National Association of Realtors, which reported that sales of previously-occupied homes fell to a 15-year low, you're not alone. To give you an idea of some of the hardest-hit markets across the country, we've compiled a snapshot of eight markets that showed the worst year-over-year declines in prices and sales of single-family homes as of July, according to the NAR's figures. - www.huffingtonpost.com

08/05/2010 - Will Lower Interest Rates Jumpstart Housing? (CHART OF THE DAY) - Siding with Washington Post's's Ezra Klein, on his blog, Paul Krugman wants to clear the air about the comparisons being made between the economic tenures of Reagan and Obama. - www.huffingtonpost.com

07/31/2010 - Negative Equity Breakdown - Here is some data from a recent congressional briefing by Mark Zandi, Chief Economist of Moody's Economy.com, and Yale Professor Robert Shiller. I believe all of this negative equity data was presented by Zandi. - www.calculatedriskblog.com
Read More: Debt in Negative Equity,
Number of Underwater Homeowners
Negative Equity by State

07/17/2010 - 10 Cities Where Sellers SLASHED Home Prices In June (PHOTOS) - If you're looking for a home in Boston, Phoenix Baltimore, Dallas or Minneapolis, we have some good news. For the second month in a row, home sellers are cutting prices in droves in these cities, according to Trulia, which maintains one of the most comprehensive real estate sites on the web. - www.huffingtonpost.com

07/14/2010 - Residents who live in these 25 growing towns see their incomes go the furthest. (PHOTOS) - See complete data and interactive map for the 25 cities pictured here - www.cnn.com

06/16/2010 - The Fastest-Rising Home Prices In America: CoreLogic (PHOTOS) - The number might seem surprising given the country's high rates of foreclosure, mortgage delinquency and unemployment. But the increase in home prices indicates that some housing markets badly wounded by the recession are finally starting to heal. - www.huffingtonpost.com

05/29/2010 - MAP: You might want to know! Where the dumbest drivers are - One in five licensed drivers -- some 38 million Americans -- lack the knowledge necessary to pass a written driving test, and even more are distracted while driving, according to a survey released Thursday. - www.cnn.com

04/07/2010 - 10 big commercial real estate busts - As acute as the pain has been in the U.S. housing market, commercial real estate has been no stranger to trouble. Here is a glimpse of some high-profile victims that have been claimed so far. - www.cnn.com

03/23/2010 - 25 best places to buy a home now - Many cities close to the Bay Area saw a huge run-up in home prices during the boom as real estate buyers branched out to less expensive markets - www.cnn.com

03/10/2010 - Customer Service FAILS: 10 Industries That Draw The Most Customer Complaints (PHOTOS) - The Better Business Bureau put together its annual ranking of the companies that generate the most customer complaints. The list is more than just a tabulation of which companies -- including repeat offenders like used car dealers and collection agencies -- it's also a measure of how far companies will go to resolve BBB complaints. - www.huffingtonpost.com

02/26/2010 - The Worst-Performing Housing Markets - PHOTO GALLERY - First, the bad news. Only six of the 20 major real estate markets covered in the widely-watched Case-Shiller index showed positive year-over-year gains. Overall, the 20 cities are down an average of 3.1 percent over last year. And, nationally, prices are still off about 30 percent from their 2006 peak. The good news is that there are some markets that are showing price growth or are at least leveling out. (Check out the best performing housing markets in the last year here.) - www.huffingtonpost.com

02/22/2010 - Majoring In Debt: Average Grad Owes $23,000 - Slide Show - And as college becomes less and less affordable, that figure continues to rise. The number of student loan accounts in the U.S., said Equifax, which compiles credit data, has peaked at 69 million -- a 29 percent increase from two years ago. In total, students have borrowed $527 billion to go to school. - www.huffingtonpost.com

01/29/2010 - 10 cities hit by Foreclosure plague: Where it's spreading - The new wave of foreclosure filings is tied more to the economy than bad mortgages. That means its spreading beyond the bubble markets such as Las Vegas and Southern California. Here are 10 cities where defaults grew the fastest in 2009. - www.cnn.com

01/22/2010 - The most overrated economic indicators - GDP because it is falsely held up as the sole arbiter of recession, which can be hugely misleading, as in 2008, when, even in early September (pre-Lehman), when the economy had been in recession for nine months, most forecasters were still in "what recession?" mode, - www.curiouscapitalist.com

01/21/2010 - Suburban Poverty Surges: See The 11 Areas Hit The Hardest (PHOTOS) - Over the last decade, much of the conversation surrounding poverty in America has focused on the urban poor. But according to a report released by the Brookings Institution today, there are now more impoverished people living in suburban areas than in the cities they border. - www.huffingtonpost.com

01/13/2010 - 10 Charts To See Before You Buy A Home: Michael David White - Michael David White lays out ten charts he recommends every home buyer see before taking out a mortgage. - www.newobservations.com
Read More: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY PRICE INDEX

01/08/2010 - Most Hated Companies In America: The Top 15 - This feature originally appeared at - 247wallst.com, Customers, employees, shareholders, and taxpayers hate large corporations for many reasons. 24/7 Wall St. has looked at many of these issues to choose the 15... - www.huffingtonpost.com

12/21/2009 - PHOTOS: The Worst Companies To Work For - - Glassdoor.com, a web forum where users share employment-related information, released the results of its survey of the best and worst companies to work for. - www.huffingtonpost.com

11/29/2009 - PHOTOS: Americans No Longer Live In The World's Biggest Homes. Which Country Ranks First? - The study, commissioned by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, found that the average Australian house had grown by 10 percent in the past decade to 214.6 square meters (2,310 sq ft), Reuters - reports. - www.huffingtonpost.com

11/22/2009 - Home buyers have the power in Sarasota-Bradenton area - During September, buyers were able to seal their deals at a median of 7.8 percent below the final listing price, Zillow said. That equates to a savings of just under $20,000 -- in many cases from a price that has already been lowered. - www.heraldtribune.com

Regions where it is a buyers/sellers market

10/28/2009 - Foreclosures: Worst-hit cities - Foreclosure rates are easing in some of the hardest-hit areas, but the plague is spreading to new cities. - www.cnn.com

10/21/2009 - Housing: Best recovery bets - he average home price is forecast to plummet over the next two years. But these 7 cities are predicted to post gains. - www.cnn.com

10/20/2009 - How to Get a Lower Property Tax - The first step is to review the assessment from your county and ensure all the details are correct. Sometimes this can pay off in a big way. - www.howstuffworks.com

10/20/2009 - Latest home prices: April - June 2009 - The national median home price fell a record 15.6% during the second quarter of 2009. Check how prices fared in your hometown. - www.cnn.com

10/20/2009 - Big cities: Big changes in foreclosure rates - Of the country's 20 largest cities, these six posted the fastest year-over-year growth and decline in their foreclosure rates during the first six months of 2009. - www.cnn.com

10/10/2009 - The Statistics Of The Great Recession - Here's a by-the-numbers look at the stock market and the economy since the eight-day crash one year ago: - www.huffingtonpost.com

09/12/2009 - A Year of Financial Turmoil - A timeline of the most pivotal events in the financial crisis. www.nytimes.com - INTERACTIVE -

09/10/2009 - 10 Financial Bubbles In The Making - The trick, of course, is spotting them. By definition, most people don't spot a bubble before they form and burst.
www.businessinsider.com - 10 Bubbles In The Making -

09/10/2009 - Latest home prices: April - June 2009. Best place to haggle your home price? Florida - The national median home price fell a record 15.6% during the second quarter of 2009. Check how prices fared in your hometown. - www.cnn.com

09/03/2009 - Top Execs At Bailed-Out Banks Stand To Make Millions In Stock Options - The top five executives at 10 financial institutions that took some of the biggest taxpayer bailouts have seen a combined increase in the value of their stock options of nearly $90 million - www.reuters.com

08/26/2009 - 6 rules for buying foreclosures online - Foreclosure auctions are making it easier to buy distressed real estate online. The homes vary widely in price and condition, but sticking to these ground rules can help you land an amazing deal. - www.msn.com

08/26/2009 - 7 simple steps to a dirt-cheap mortgage - Want to take advantage of the attractive rates to buy a home or refinance, but have a lot of questions? Here are your answers. - www.msn.com

08/26/2009 - J.D. Power mortgage poll: Regions, BB&T tops; BofA, Fifth Third, Ocwen rate low - Mortgage servicers perform billing, payment processing and other mortgage services. They are also the first responder these days to people who are trying to fend off foreclosure. Homeowners polled by J.D. Power rated the companies on responsiveness, accuracy and reliability, among other factors. - www.orlandosentinel.com

08/14/2009 - Five Real Estate Lies That Will Not Die - I still hear them every day: Fallacies about buying real estate and putting money into property after you already own it. - www.trashoutpro.com

08/07/2009 - Foreclosure fallout hangs heaviest in Soutwest Florida - (Florida) - Foreclosures spiked 788 percent during the last three years in the 20th Judicial Circuit, home to Port Charlotte, Fort Myers and Cape Coral. In the 12th Circuit -- Bradenton, Sarasota, North Port, Venice and Arcadia -- filings rose 631 percent from 2006 to 2008. - www.heraldtribune.com

08/13/2009 - Big cities: Big changes in foreclosure rates - Of the country's 20 largest cities, these six posted the fastest year-over-year growth and decline in their foreclosure rates during the first six months of 2009.
money.cnn.com - 8 Pics GALLERY -

08/07/2009 - The 10 Worst Calls Of The Financial Crisis - (PHOTOS) - The harrowing market plunge of last fall seemed to catch a nearly every prominent public figure off guard. - www.huffingtonpost.com

08/06/2009 - North Port Florida home permits slow to nothing - finally hit bottom, as the city that was once at the epicenter of speculative building in Sarasota County issued no new home permits in July. - www.heraldtribune.org

08/06/2009 - New home permits 2005-09 - New home permits 2005-09. - www.heraldtribune.org

07/31/2009 - The Municipal Cost of Foreclosures: A Chicago Case Study - Homeownership Preservation Foundation - Housing Finance Policy Research Paper Number 2005-1. - www.995hope.org

07/23/2009 - 10 Myths about Subprime Mortgages - The subprime crisis was building for years before showing any signs and was fed by lending, securitization, leveraging, and housing booms. - www.clevelandfed.org

07/23/2009 - MAP: Interactive - Find the Best Place to Work - Pick a Region or pick a State - www.usnews.com

07/23/2009 - 10 Cities With the Most Job Postings Per Capita - States Where the Unemployed Are Giving Up The high levels of discouraged workers in these states suggest people are short on hope - www.usnews.com

07/23/2009 - MAP: Interactive - the Most Job Postings Per Capita - For the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the United States. - www.indeed.com

07/20/2009 - 7 Reasons Why Housing Isn't Bottoming Yet - There are a plethora of reasons why I believe we are nowhere near a bottom in Housing prices or activity. Here are a few: - www.ritholtz.com

07/20/2009 - The Top 10 Mortgage Fraud States For 2008 - The FBI, in conjunction with our law enforcement, regulatory, and industry partners, continues to diligently pursue perpetrators of mortgage fraud schemes. - www.usnews.com

07/20/2009 - Housing Sector 'No Longer in Freefall': 5 Things You Need to Know - Here are five things you need to know about the May existing-home sales report:. - www.usnews.com

07/20/2009 - The 10 Most Dollar-Discounted Housing Markets - To pinpoint which housing markets are offering the steepest discounts in total dollar terms, we turned to the real estate search engine of U.S. News partner Trulia. - www.usnews.com

07/16/2009 - 25 Best Towns For Affordable Homes - Residents who live in these 25 growing towns see their incomes go the furthest.
money.cnn.com - 25 Pics GALLERY -

07/14/2009 - Best places for the rich and single - Seeking a sugar daddy (or sugar-mama)? Follow the money to these towns and cities, where affluent young professionals are abundant.
money.cnn.com - 25 Pics GALLERY -

07/04/2009 - America's Most Troubled Luxury Neighborhoods - They held up nicely while the rest of the country slumped last year. This year such Tiffany zip codes are on track to fall 15 percent to 25 percent.
www.forbes.com - GALLERY -

07/29/2008 - The 10 Least Catchy Wall Street Protest Signs - - Everyone knows the best part of any worthwhile protest are the hilariously lame protest-pun signs. Here are some of the lowlights. - www.bestweekever.tv

07/02/2009 - Real Estate Crash: How's Your City Doing? - How's your market doing? Here's a run-through of the trends in the 20 cities in the Case-Shiller index, ordered by current peak-to-trough collapse.
www.businessinsider.com - GRAPHS -

07/02/2009 - Tips of the day: Where can you get the best real estate deals? - - According to FrontDoor.com, these cities have the best deals on real estate. Prices have fallen here more than the average 6 percent nationwide. - www.sun-sentinel.com

06/29/2009 - America's Best And Worst Cities For Families - - Metros where folks have enough money for everyday expenses, and spots where daily budgets eat up a sizable chunk of incomes. - www.forbes.com

06/26/2009 - The 10 Most Heavily Discounted Housing Markets - - Listing prices in these cities have been slashed by millions of dollars over the past year - www.usnews.com

UPDATED QUATERLY - MetroMonitor - site provides a list of city profiles and six interactive maps. The data will be updated quarterly. - www.trashoutpro.com-

06/16/2009 - 20 Strongest and Weakest Metropolitan Areas - Survey of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas ranks cities fron strongest to weakest www.huffingtonpost.com

06/16/2009 - Recession Hurting U.S. Cities At "Radically Varying Levels" - which will lead to an uneven economic recovery, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution. www.huffingtonpost.com

06/14/2009 - Best Places to Move to Survive The Recession - Where Struggling Americans Can Find a Fresh Start. Thousands of Americans across the U.S. are wondering if they would be better off somewhere else. The question is where? www.news.yahoo.com

06/08/2009 - Top 14 Celebrity Foreclosures - Fame and Fortune Haven't Kept These VIP Homeowners From Sliding Into Delinquency
www.forbes.com - SLIDE SHOW -

06/06/2009 - America's 10 Most Affordable Metro Areas - Looking to move to a more affordable area? Take a look at these 10 metro areas, ranked based on the percentage of affordable homes for a family making the median income in that neighborhood.
www.cnbc.com - IN PICTURES -

06/06/2009 - America's 10 Least Affordable Metro Areas - Take a look at these 10 metro areas, ranked as least affortable based on the percentage of least affordable homes for a family making the median income in that area.
www.cnbc.com - IN PICTURES -

06/06/2009 - Mortgage crisis robbing seniors of golden years - - Estimated wealth of senior's households in the 55-64 age group and 65-74 age group - www.usatoday.com

06/04/2009 - Most over- and under-valued housing markets - - Low prices bring investors back into many markets. - www.money.cnn.com

06/04/2009 - 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis - The good intentions, bad managers and greed behind the meltdown - In Defense of the Recession Blame Game
www.time.com - SLIDE SHOW -

05/12/2009 - The Most Overpriced Cities in America - Bloated Housing Prices, Lofty Living Costs and High Unemployment Make These Cities the Most Overpriced in the U.S.
www.forbes.com - SLIDE SHOW -

05/12/09 - The Most Overpriced Cities in America - www.forbes.com

05/04/09 - America's Top 25 Towns To Live Well - www.forbes.com

05/04/09 - Cities that resist recessions, Would you want to live there? - www.msnbc.com

04/29/09 - Neighborhood Stabilization Program Grants (NSP) $ by State - www.hud.com

04/21/2009 - America's Most Foreclosure-Ridden Towns. - Twenty spots with the highest concentration of bank-owned properties Crisis.
www.forbes.com - IN PICTURES -

04/21/09 - America's Most Foreclosure-Ridden Towns. Twenty spots with the highest concentration of bank-owned properties. - forbes.com

04/26/09 - America's Most Dangerous Cities - yahoo.com

04/20/09 - CNBC - The Most Affordable Metro Areas Slideshow - cnbc.com

04/01/09 - The future of home prices - where are they headed - money.cnn.com

04/01/09 - The Biggest Holders of US Government Debt - cnbc.com

04/01/09 - In Depth: America's Most Livable Cities - forbes.com

04/01/09 - States with the Highest Foreclosure Rates: March 2008 - cnbc.com

04/01/09 - CNBC - 10 Highest Homeowner Vacancy Rates Slideshow - cnbc.com

04/01/09 - The World's Most Expensive Real Estate Markets Slideshow - cnbc.com

03/31/09 - In Depth: Riskiest Places For U.S. Homeowners - forbes.com

03/30/09 - In Depth: 10 Cities Where Americans Are Relocating - forbes.com

01/29/09 - IN DEPTH: America's Most and Least Popular Cities

01/21/09 - IN DEPTH: World's Best Places For Real Estate Buys

01/12/09 - IN DEPTH: America's Best Cities For Home Buyers

01/06/09 - IN PICTURES: America's 10 Most Miserable Cities - forbes.com

01/26/09 - IN DEPTH: America's Emptiest Cities - forbes.com

01/26/09 - Recession Turns Boom Towns Into Ghost Towns - forbes.com

12/03/08 - Best Cities For Trapped Homeowners - forbes.com

01/26/08 - Creative New Ways To Buy A Home - forbes.com

01/26/2009 - 10 Creative Ways To Buy A Home - forbes.com

Top 10 Lists by Forbes, CNBC, Money, CNN, etc...

Statistics Obtained from Outside Sources
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Underwater: Negative Equity Mortgages By State - Owes more on than the home is worth. - www.npr.com

Where does your state rank? - Americans everywhere are feeling the recession's pain - some more than others. - www.cnn.com

Money's Best Places to Live: - Biggest Price Drops, Biggest Price Gains - www.cnn.com

RE Forecasts: - Latest forecasts and projections for the nation's largest metro areas. 2006, 2009, 2010 - www.cnn.com

MAPS: - Interactive - The Economy Where You Live. - www.npr.org

MAPS: - Florida Residents flee, jobs vanish. - www.orlandosentinel.com

Real Estate: Your local forecast - 381 markets tracked - money.cnn.com

US Debt Clock: Combined Debt and Liability - www.usdebtclock.org

National Debt Realtime Clock: US Realtime Clock - www.foxnews.com

Real Misery Index: Loans, Foreclosures, Repos - www.huffingtonpost.com

MAPS: Where The Housing Bubble Popped - www.huffingtonpost.com

MAPS: State by State Foreclosure Map: - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 -

MAPS: Mortgage Delinquencies by Counties - www.huffingtonpost.com

MAPS: State by State where the $8,000 tax credit is going - www.cnn.com

MAPS: Deficit: State by State, Foreclosures, Unemployment - money.cnn.com

MAPS: Bank Failures, Foreclosures State by State - money.cnn.com

MAPS: Economic Stress Map Outlines Recession's Stories - www.yahoo.com

MAPS: 3rd. Wave - Foreclosures For Prime Mortgages - www.nytimes.com

MAPS: Jobless rate. Where does your state rank? - money.cnn.com

MAPS: Interactive Where White-Collar Criminals Are Jailed - www.wsj.com

MAPS: Interactive Unemployment Map Across The U.S. - www.nytimes.com

MAPS: Interactive - the Most Job Postings Per Capita. - www.indeed.com

MAPS: Interactive - Stimulus Funding by State. - www.foxbusiness.com

MAPS: Interactive - Case-Shiller home-price indexes. - www.wsj.com

MAPS: Interactive Map: The Economy Where You Live - www.npr.org

MAPS: American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins - www.wired.org

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