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If you turn these graphs upside down and ignore facts, history and math, then Obama is a failure.....how much longer can the media sustain the false narrative and con job in the face of facts?
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/household-net-worth-climbs-15-trillion-in-1st-quarter-2014-06-05
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) Thanks to rising house prices and a growing stock market, U.S. households and nonprofits added $1.5 trillion in net worth in the first quarter, according to Federal Reserve data released Thursday.
The data was part of a voluminous report called the financial accounts of the United States, which contains details on an array of assets and liabilities. The gain in net worth to $81.76 trillion was driven by a $758 billion increase in the value of residential real estate and a $361 billion rise in corporate equities.
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(7,051 posts)postulater
(5,075 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)bluesbassman
(19,369 posts)The only salvation we have at this point to thwart another "housing bubble" was the extreme reversal of the loose credit practices of the early 2000's. Don't look now, but we may be headed back that way...
Wells Fargo (WFC:US) & Co., the biggest U.S. home lender, two weeks ago cut its minimum credit score for borrowers of Fannie Mae-and Freddie Mac-backed loans to 620 from 660. The step followed moves by smaller lenders, such as the U.S. unit of Canadas Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), which lowered down payments to 3 percent without requiring mortgage insurance for some loans.
Banks ratcheted up borrowing requirements after the most severe housing crash since the Great Depression, preventing as many as 1.2 million loans from being made in 2012, according to an Urban Institute paper. Lenders rode a wave of refinancing until a spike in borrowing costs last year gutted demand, forcing the biggest banks to cut more than 25,000 mortgage jobs. Now theyre removing barriers to mortgages for some borrowers in hopes of reviving a shrinking market.
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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-05-01/easier-bank-credit-for-homeowners-compels-wells-fargo-mortgages
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Fewer Americans can afford to own residential real estate:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-30/american-dream-erased-as-homeownership-at-18-year-low.html
Homeownership falls to 19-year low: Here's why
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101624168
And the jobs that have been created are mostly low-pay service jobs:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/04/28/3431351/recovery-jobs-low-wage/
Recovery Has Created Far More Low-Wage Jobs Than Better-Paid Ones
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/business/economy/recovery-has-created-far-more-low-wage-jobs-than-better-paid-ones.html?_r=0
Low-wage jobs proliferate as middle class ones disappear: job growth patterns since the recession
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/04/low-wage_jobs_proliferate_as_m.html
Low-Wage Jobs Replace Middle-Income Work, Study Finds
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/31/low-wage-jobs_n_1846733.html
Careers Are Dead. Welcome To Your Low-Wage, Temp Work Future
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jmaureenhenderson/2012/08/30/careers-are-dead-welcome-to-your-low-wage-temp-work-
No, the chocolate ration has not been increased:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022384139
How the 1 percent won the recovery, in one table
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/11/how-the-1percent-won-the-recovery-in-one-table/
Recovery for the Rich, Recession for the Rest
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/recovery-for-the-rich-rec_b_3910615.html
The Rich Get Richer Through the Recovery
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/the-rich-get-richer-through-the-recovery/
Incomes Flat in Recovery, but Not for the 1%
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014400736
U.S. corporate profits stronger than ever, workers' wages fallen to lowest-ever share of GDP (CNN)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021922334
U.S. Income Inequality Now Worse Than Many Latin American Countries
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022268073
Ranks of working poor increasing
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022200197
Inequality Rages as Dwindling Wages Lock Millions in Poverty
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022198286
The Middle Class In America Is Being Wiped Out Here Are 60 Facts That Prove It
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022144851
Child poverty rates increase unabated
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022268450
40 Percent of Americans Now Make Less than 1968 Minimum Wage
http://www.democraticunderground.com/111631016
Corporate Profits Have Grown By 171 Percent Under Anti-Business Obama
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014372334
US poverty on track to reach 46-year high; suburbs, underemployed workers, children hit hard
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002998131
Poverty, hunger among retirees increasing
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002748342
The Economy is "Recovering" By Creating More Low-Wage Jobs... Increasingly Filled By Graduates
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022602162
"Recovery" in US is lifting profits, but not adding jobs
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014414149
Obama to use pension funds of ordinary Americans to pay for bank mortgage settlements
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002205218
What Recovery? Across America, People in Distressed Cities and Small Towns Face Economic Catastrophe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022545596
Real wages decline; literally no one notices
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11172387
Wall Street Soars with Wealth as Wages Stagnate, Jobs Remain in a Slump
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12526154
Wages for bottom 90% declined 1.2% during 2009-2011 recovery, top 1% income grew 8.2%
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022271466
Three Minimum Wage Jobs Needed To Afford Two-Bedroom Apartment
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022578738
Wages have fallen to a record low as a share of Americas gross domestic product.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022183930
The Real Numbers: Half of America in Poverty -- and It's Creeping toward 75%
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002290698
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)Because when these bubbles pop, and they will, it's going to be ugly. If the economy was in good shape there would be no QE. Right now the market panics at even the rumor of a small taper because the only reason the market is going up is because of QE. Imagine what it will be like when there is no QE, or when the Fed has to start selling.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)of 2009 has been averted, despite all attempts by the GOP to sabotage the economy....some people still remember that far back, and the credit is given where credit is due.