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• House Price Indices: Case-Shiller and LoanPerformance December 22, 2009
  Earlier today I mentioned that the Fed started using First American CoreLogic's LoanPerformance House Price Index last year for the Flow of Funds report.And also that LoanPerformance announced today that house prices fell 0.7% in October.Since most people have been following Case-Shiller, here is a graph of the LoanPerformance index (with and without fo […]
• TARP Deadbeat List Grows to 55 December 22, 2009
  From the WaPo: Number of delinquent bailed-out banks rises A growing number of the recipients face financial problems and have been unable to pay the government. Fifteen banks failed to make the required payments in May, federal data show. The number climbed to 33 banks in August, and 55 banks that failed to make the dividend payments due Nov. 17. Here is th […]
• LoanPerformance: House Prices Fall 0.7% in October December 21, 2009
  The Fed's favorite house price indicator from First American CoreLogic’s LoanPerformance ...From LoanPerformance: Annual Home Prices Continue to Depreciate On a month-over-month basis ... national home prices declined by -0.7 percent in October 2009 compared to September 2009...."We are continuing to see improvements in the year-over-year home pric […]