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The credit crunch could crush the euro
Telegraph (UK) ^ | December 3, 2007 | By Liam Halligan

Posted on 12/02/2007 5:27:41 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin

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1 posted on 12/02/2007 5:27:41 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
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To: DeaconBenjamin
The credit crunch is hammering the US, which now faces a likely recession.

Not worth reading past the first sentence.

2 posted on 12/02/2007 5:29:26 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: facedown
Not worth reading past the first sentence.

Correct. Blah,blah,blah,blah,yada,yada,yada!

3 posted on 12/02/2007 5:32:21 PM PST by rocksblues (Just enforce the law!)
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To: facedown

Talked to a real estate agent the other day who said the credit market in Atlanta has dried up. House sales are dropping. Care to recompute?


4 posted on 12/02/2007 5:44:39 PM PST by saganite
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My barber said it hasn’t. My barber is right about a lot more things than most realtors.


5 posted on 12/02/2007 5:47:19 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

What a joke - look at the Shanghai index.

This author thinks we’re going to be the only ones feeling pain ?

Not likely.


6 posted on 12/02/2007 5:50:59 PM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: Larry Lucido

I talk to my barber about fishing and local goings on. I wouldn’t trust him as an expert on the credit market though.


7 posted on 12/02/2007 5:51:36 PM PST by saganite
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To: cinives

Shanghai is down 22% from it’s peak and with a 55 P/E ratio still, it’s probably got a lot more to fall.


8 posted on 12/02/2007 6:03:20 PM PST by rb22982
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Location....Atlanta is drying up, no water.

No Joke, Atlanta could be a disaster zone in a few months.

No water means you must exit to survive. It is that bleak, and that simple. What bank would make a loan in Atlanta now? A crazy one. Why are house prices dropping there? You may not be able to flush a toilet there in May or June.

9 posted on 12/02/2007 6:11:54 PM PST by PA-RIVER
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You are right but I don’t think that’s the reason for the credit market drying up.


10 posted on 12/02/2007 6:13:42 PM PST by saganite
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Atlanta is literally facing an exodus next summer if things dont change. Every region has its reasons for falling prices. I have a house in PA, and it continues to hold its value. The region did not spike too fast. Taxes are low.
11 posted on 12/02/2007 6:32:53 PM PST by PA-RIVER
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Same where I’m at (western NC) and we’re in the same drought status as Atlanta. That’s one of the reasons I think the credit crunch isn’t related to the weather but instead to over building and speculation.


12 posted on 12/02/2007 6:35:53 PM PST by saganite
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To: facedown

I swear, everything from the other side of the pond which involved either economics or politics is so insidiously lopsided and wrong its beyond random probability and borders on criminality.


13 posted on 12/02/2007 6:42:07 PM PST by bpjam (Harry Reid doesn't even have 32% of my approval)
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To: Larry Lucido
Met a realtor at Radio Shack today....working as a register clerk.

At least he has a job.

14 posted on 12/02/2007 7:00:31 PM PST by spokeshave (Hey GOP...NO money till border closed and criminal illegals deported)
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To: PA-RIVER

Taxes are low?> LOW?!? In PA? Are yo nuts? I lived there for a few years. I got a tax bill for my wife. Her occupation tax as a HouseWife! Sales tax, school tax, Borough tax, Sinking tax, Income tax, County tax. Bah, I moved to TN. Now theres some low taxes.


15 posted on 12/02/2007 7:11:56 PM PST by RoadGumby (Ask me about Ducky)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

The ECB will do what they always do, lie.

They will make up the numbers to do whatever they want.


16 posted on 12/02/2007 7:38:46 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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...so insidiously lopsided and wrong its beyond random probability and borders on criminality.

Nah, just jealousy.

17 posted on 12/02/2007 7:48:32 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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The ECB will do what they always do, lie.

They will make up the numbers to do whatever they want.

Sticking their heads in the sand will not solve the problem.

18 posted on 12/02/2007 7:51:29 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
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To: DeaconBenjamin

(sarcasm on)

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I CAN”T HEAR YOU

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(sarcasm off)


19 posted on 12/02/2007 8:06:57 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Ping!


20 posted on 12/02/2007 8:09:56 PM PST by Amazon7 (FR is my homepage.)
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