{"id":1748,"date":"2008-05-20T15:47:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T15:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-05-20T15:48:20","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T15:48:20","slug":"one_sign_that_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1748","title":{"rendered":"One Sign That Markets Are At Bottom&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is pundits who declare how far they really have left to fall, and calling for immediate government action. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/19\/opinion\/19mon1.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;oref=slogin\" target=\"browser\">this NYT editorial<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The housing bust is feeding on itself: price declines provoke foreclosures, which provoke more price declines. And the problem is not limited to subprime mortgages. There is an entirely different category of risky loans whose impact has yet to be felt \u00e2\u20ac\u201d loans made to creditworthy borrowers but with tricky terms and interest rates that will start climbing next year.<\/p>\n<p>\nYet the Senate Banking Committee goes on talking. It has failed as yet to produce a bill to aid borrowers at risk of foreclosure, with the panel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ranking Republican, Richard Shelby of Alabama, raising objections. In the House, a foreclosure aid measure passed recently, but with the support of only 39 Republicans. The White House has yet to articulate a coherent way forward, sowing confusion and delay. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then there is how people in the market react in reality (via <a href=\"http:\/\/calculatedrisk.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/dataquick-on-socal-sales-surge-in-march.html\" target=\"browser\">Calculated Risk<\/a>, an indispensable blog on the topic):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Southern California home sales surged last month to the highest level since August as bargain shoppers took advantage of price slashing. Although some higher-end costal markets also posted gains, the swell in transactions mainly reflects more sales of homes under $500,000 in inland areas where depreciation and foreclosures have been greatest, a real estate information service reported.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT Editorial Board and reality&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}