Monthly Archives: January 2012

S&P Housing: Price Slide Resumes

Just in from Case-Shiller/S&P: New York, January 31, 2012 – Data through November 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed declines of 1.3`% for both the 10- … Continue reading

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Coping: Living Through an Earthquake

We begin the “softer side” of this news this morning with a report from a reader who just lived through this earthquake in Peru: Hi George. I sent you an earthquake statistic analysis a couple of years ago; this just … Continue reading

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The One Number that Matters

We burrow into another Monday with all the zest and vigor of an aged and lame elephant, since plodding along slowly with a few investments and slow decision-making seems to work.  Still holding to our gold decision (2001) and silver … Continue reading

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