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The top of today’s reading list is an article that says house flippers will stop the housing recovery ……… and the last story is is about a school district can make a $22 million loan turn into $154 million of repayment.
- House price rebound cruising for a fall (Stephen Foley, Financial Times) Could house flippers undo a housing recovery?
- Yet Another Cost of Doing Business Fine: Lender Processing Services Settles with 46 Attorneys General for $127 Million (Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism)
- Imagine That. You Have the Option To. (Roger Erickson, Mike Norman Economics) Look at the pictures – you won’t believe your eyes.
- The next supermodel (The Economist) The best political economic model today comes from the Nordic countries. Hat tip to Russell Huntley.
- How Disaster Aid Recipients Voted on Sandy Relief (Al Shaw and Jeff Larson, ProPublica) ProPublica articles are occasionally posted at Global Economic Intersection.
- The Master Meme (James Howard Kunstler, Clusterfuck Nation) You can be sure that when a nation is led by the reality-deficient, unhappy outcomes are a sure thing.
- Stocks Cruisin’ For A Bruisin’ (Cam Hui, Daily Markets)
- 10 tax mistakes you don’t want to make (Kay Bell, MSN Money)
- US economic, peace breakthroughs technically easy, AND require public demand (Carl Herman, Washington’s Blog) A high school government and economics teacher has a prescription for our problems.
- School districts pay dearly for bonds (Trey Bundy and Shane Shifflett, San Fransisco Chronicle) Lenders are not gouging. Actually they are only getting about 5% average annual interest. The problem lies in balloon payments with interest payment deferral and 40-year pay-off schedules which makes a $22 million loan eventually cost $154 million. Hat tip to Public Banking.
