Lennar: land inventory value plummets in Miami ... By Geniusofdespair & Gimleteye

.fullpost{display:inline;}Lennar is one of Miami's largest corporate citizens (and measured by value, the nation's third largest production homebuilder). The company has a major stake in zoning changes to move the Urban Development Boundary that separates environmentally sensitive lands near the Everglades from areas that receive public subsidies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 10:58:00

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Economic and Investing Forecast for 2009: 10 Charts Showing no Economic Rebound in 2009.

Today the ADP National Employment Report stated that private sector jobs fell by a much larger than expected 693,000 in December.  This report stunned on the downside and is a prelude to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics report which comes out on Friday.  The market also suffered its worst one day since early December [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 08:01:43

How The Fed Wishes to Sterilize The New “Galaxy Liquidity”: The Plan To Force It Off Its Present Currency Destructive Planetary Killer Course

Dear CIGAs, Hints have been dropped repeatedly about the potential of the Federal Reserve issuing Federal Reserve Bonds along with less issuing of ... misnamed an asset, now in the inventory of the Fed, is a STRING with many knots. The knots are counter parties. The string is the thing called an asset. Value, slipped or sliced, is called [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:03:03

ICR Xchange Summary: PacSun

Today, the annual ICR Xchange conference was held in Dana Point, California, at the luxurious St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort. Transworld Business was on-site and sat in to a few of the summaries that were pertinent to our industry. Companies provided some information on how 2008 went, and their focuses and predictions for 2009 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:47:15

November 2008 - Net Worth Update and Personal Finance Status

In an effort to encourage readers to learn to calculate net worth and track their personal financial progression, I’ve begun the process of posting my monthly net worth updates online for all to see and review. While taking the time and effort to record and analyze my investments and liabilities requires a measure of dedication, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 21:07:42

Noah's 2009 Predictions

A: Lets keep the tradition going and I apologize in advance for the length of this, hopefully you can find 5 min to read it all. Here were last years predictions for 2008, published December 27th, 2007; if you haven't read it yet and are new to this blog, please try to read it before continuing so you can see where I was right, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 15:28:05

Realtors report monthly dip in home sales

Consultant eyes flat-at-best O.C. housing market Realtor group prez eyes housing’s opportunities Pimco’s Simon eyes O.C. home price bottom in late 2009 Outgoing Realtor prez eyes O.C. rebound by summer Tell us what O.C. home prices will do in 2009 Other real estate news … Realtors report monthly dip in home sales Did IndyMac’s regulator let it [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 02:02:33

Jan 13, 2009

Day started out nice, with a few good trades, notably ADBE short. Then things turned into repetition of yesterday so we cut down on activity. Took couple stops, took couple scalps - all in all, we could finish the day after first morning trades just as well. Session Time: Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 2009 {nemo} guten morgen {Threei} [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 21:13:50

Residential Real Estate attracts Private Money: guest post by Brian Dubuc

Christmas, and then inevitably New Year’s has come and gone ... to sell them as soon as the market comes back. The article labels them, “speculators.” Come again? Let ... These are not bad things. Would you rather have private individuals owning that asset and making [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 14:33:19

Oil troubled waters 2

Belmont Club Commenter L3 has an theory on why oil prices have swung from their recent heights to their recent lows. Below the “Read More” The key here is exchange rates and the impact of increased consumer spending driven by the housing bubble and foreign investment by US investors [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 05:29:40

US Refiners Continued - If We're Not Going Back to 2006-2007 Enviroment, Then They Don't Look Cheap

In regards to US refiners still being priced for good times, in my view as per EV/Capacity analysis ... , they listed their inventory as including $4.5 billion of refinery feedstocks and products ... understanding of relative value. Once we try to start guessing what their inventory values [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 06:38:38

Manhattan Inventory Stagnates - For Now

A: With Q4 in the books, we are getting the first glimpses of what happened to our marketplace in the period after the fall of Lehman and the gov't ... of year. Looking at the UrbanDigs Real-Time Manhattan Inventory Chart (this real-time tool was launched ... retrenchment as we neared the holiday season. ud-nyc-inventory.jpg I find the % change tool at [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:44:49

Deflationary Fears Rule the Day

Hello All!I hope everyone had a great Monday. Stocks once again closed in the red today as deflationary fears and worries around 4th quarter earnings continue to worry Wall St.There really was no trigger that sent stocks lower today. Deflation continues to rule the day. Gold and oil were absolutely pummeled [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:31:00

Buyers’ Market: 10 Popular Luxury Items You Can Buy for 10 Cents on the Dollar

Have you ever wanted to be in the middle of a buyer’s market? If you managed to stash some liquid funds, then you’re primed for this economy’s meltdown. A buyer’s market, or soft market, exists when there are more sellers than buyers. This excess of supply over demand results in lower prices, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:43:35

Tweets for Today

10:39 Get your Facebook self on The Today Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda right now: *-bit.ly/67Df # 11:24 See the secrets of turning a hobby into a professional business in 2009: hobbyisttolobbyist.com People, nonprofits, coaches & biz # 12:22 @koa I've seen evidence of at least 2 people receiving the same promo ad from AT&T [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:10:46

The All-New IntelliScanner SOHO Unveiled at Macworld

San Francisco, CA @ Macworld Expo 2009 - IntelliScanner Corporation, creators of award-winning scanners and software that organize everything, ... Tags, pre-printed barcode tags used to track, sort and search inventory with ease. Users ... storage, IntelliScanner SOHO’s smart barcode scanner and software uses advanced barcode technology [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 14:56:00

The Velocity Factor

“A severe global recession will lead to deflationary pressures. Falling demand will lead to lower inflation as companies cut prices to reduce excess inventory. Slack in labour markets from rising unemployment will control labor costs and wage growth. Further [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 11:37:53

Preserving Our Mid-Century Heritage

We walk around the hollowed out remnants of our old downtowns and wonder, "How did this happen? How could generations past have done this? How did they tear down all those wonderful 19th century buildings? Didn't they know?" Yet I also wonder, will we ourselves bring the same thing into being? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 02:33:00

2008 Terrorism

As 2008 comes to a close we must look back at America's security and terrorism in general around the world ... , gaping holes in our security. Dave Gaubatz* comments on the recent Department of Homeland Security's ... the report itself to be a national security threat for America ??? more importantly for the children [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 01:13:07

IRC Subchapter K - Partners and Partnerships

Below is Subchapter K of the Internal Revenue Code.  Most hedge funds are taxed as partnerships and we discuss some of these provisions from time to time on this website.  Please let us know if you have any questions on hedge fund tax or if you would like to start a hedge fund.  § 701. Partners, not partnership, subject to tax [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:08:32

Media Release: Constellation Selling its Value Spirits Brands for $334 Million

·         Increases focus on higher-margin mid-premium spirits brands·         Leverages existing infrastructure to improve efficiencies·         ... from asset sales, along with our targeted free cash flow for fiscal 2009, we now expect our debt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:19:54

Israeli Second Strike Assets

Robert Farley, over at Lawyers, Guns and Money (go Zevon!) comments on a post by Peter Juul at Wonkroom regarding Israel and U.S. nuclear guarantees ... /availability schedule. A quick nonscientific glimpse at Haifa on Google Earth shows only one asset in port [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 20:03:00

Ad Market Liquidity Crisis and What Publishers Should Do About It

Ad Market Liquidity Crisis and What Publishers Should Do About It By Paul Edmondson January 14th, 2009 As any publisher knows, ... to the ability of turning an asset into cash.  The other type of liquidity is defined by how much an asset can be bought or sold in a market without moving the price.  The more active buyers and sellers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 07:17:03

Words from the (investment) wise 12.28.08

Investors spent the holiday-shortened Christmas week in an un-merry mood, digesting more gloomy economic data and taking stock of a tumultuous 2008. With the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Index down by 35.8% and 40.6% respectively for the year to date, many investors would be anxious to wave the old year goodbye [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 12:31:33

Converge Creates New Division to Deliver Comprehensive Reverse Supply Chain Solutions

(Technology News and Information) Converge today announces the formation of a new Reverse Supply Chain Solutions group to provide comprehensive materials management services to OEMs and CEMsThe new division combines the previous Asset Recovery division and expanded service offerings including vendor managed inventory programs service parts [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 08:26:39

The Bailouts? Not Much For the Common Guy

Trillions to financial Terra Incognita; So far very little for ordinary AmericansBy Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / January 8, 2008At this moment, the cost of the bailouts, including guarantees, stands at $ 7.2 billion. That includes a $600 billion guarantee for money market funds, $200 billion so far for credit card issuers, $345 to Citigroup, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:42:00

CommSolv Joins BlackBerry Alliance Program

Press Release Toronto, ON - CommSolv, a leader in Communications Asset Management solutions for wireless and wireline networks announces that it has ... management solution for BlackBerry Enterprise Server on CommSolv’s Mobile Asset Management platform. The CommSolv Communications Asset Management platform enables enterprises to centralize the control [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 15:20:51

Q&A with the Banker Panel at the National Auctioneers Association

Here are my notes from yesterday’s Mortgage Industry Panel from the National Auctioneers Association’s Convention in Denver.  When known, the name of the panelist answering the question is noted. Panelists A. Wesley Schuneman Founder, Ultimate Funding Group Mortgage Brokerage Kevin Feakes Mortgage Banker, First National Bank; [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 08:00:57

Stock analysis - Ingersoll rand

AboutIngersoll Rand (india) is a subsidiary of Ingersoll rand (US) with a 75% holding of the parent company. The main business ( ... on the balance sheet).The improvement in the ROE has come via improvement in margins and asset turns (both inventory and recievables ratios have shown improvements in the last 4 years).PositivesThe [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 02:14:00

Install GLPI (IT and asset Managemet Software) from Ubuntu Repositories

GLPI stands for “Gestionnaire libre de parc informatique”, GLPI is the Information Resource Manager with an additional Administration- Interface ... about your network-topology. (...) Read the rest of Install GLPI (IT and asset Managemet Software ... . You can use it to build up a database with an inventory for your company (computer, software [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 00:03:45

Unexpected Early Housing Recovery? | How To List REOs | Realtor REO Coaching and Training

Realtors….you are going to LOVE THIS……spring is almost here and I have some Fantastic news for you… In some markets, home sales are actually increasing! In Las Vegas home sale prices are down 28%, bit home sales are up 15%! And, the houses that are selling……the Foreclosures and the Shortsales! The reason? [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 22:15:06

Friday Worries Arrive Ahead of Schedule

Good Evening: Investors decided today not to wait until Friday to begin worrying about large scale job losses in the nonfarm payrolls report ... will once again start to matter in the calculation of asset prices. Though our markets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 00:32:09

FJ Linden (Frank Ambrose): November Grid Update

FJ Linden here, with my monthly grid update. It’s been a good stretch of grid stability over the last month, with one very poor day in the mix ... , to better enable tracking and monitoring of queries. We expect to be through testing in the next week [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 23:47:15

Reva RFID Network Infrastructure For Manufacturing

Reva RFID Network Infrastructure For Manufacturing An RFID Infrastructure for Manufacturing facilities - The use of RFID within the four walls and surrounding campuses of manufacturing plants create many requirements for an expandable, ... Motorola Fixed RFID Reader Antennas SkyeTek MetaFi Inventory And Asset Tracking Venture Research [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:38:15

Silly Canadian....Gold Isn't For Stupid Americans..............

Eric Sprott: Gold: The Go-To Asset in any Environment-- Posted Friday, 9 January 2009 Source: GoldSeek ... in the country. Managing $4.8 billion worth of hedge and mutual funds for Sprott Asset Management ... .comA 40-year, spectacularly successful veteran of the investment industry, Eric Sprott [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:32:00

The End of 2008!

The dollar rebounds… Home prices collapse! Consumer Confidence finally rings true… And Now… Today’s Pfennig! ... out to be a record drop! This, will continue for most of 2009 folks… There’s still just too much inventory [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 13:35:02

How to Successfully Navigate Your Business through an Economic Downturn

How to Successfully Navigate Your Business through an Economic Downturn January 13th, 2009 admin Posted in Business success | No Comments » by: Terry H Hill An economic downturn is a phase of the business cycle in which the economy as a whole is in decline.This phase basically marks the end of the period of growth in the business cycle [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 03:21:20

Acemoglu on the Economy and Economics

Daron Acemoglu has written an essay on what the financial crisis means for economics. Highly recommended. I will excerpt and comment extensively ... technologies, including better methods of communication and inventory control, the business cycles [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 18:56:54

When will the recession end? Part 4 The double dip housing crash

Last month I predicted that we may go through a double dip recession or depression, due the the protracted list of speculative leveraged asset bubbles, about 15 at my last count ... a shadow inventory of homes that will be right back on the market as soon as the economy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 18:09:12

Deflation Bubble Update: Debunking the Velocity of Money Myth

The markets got off to a bad start Wednesday following the news that some members of the Federal Open Market Committee slipped the word "deflation" into the minutes of its last meeting, in December. Thus, the media jumped all over the deflation theme [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 03:45:27

The Kool Aid They’re Drinking In Florida

The Charlotte Sun reports from Florida. “The annual Fishkind Report released Tuesday by Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund projects Florida’s economy ... only as quickly as it can wipe out home inventory and add jobs, Fishkind said.” The St Petersburg [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 17:20:54

Will Zealots and Foreigners Support the Market?

Tonight is the night… Lemon—U2 And I feel Like I’m slowly, slowly, slowly slipping under And I feel Like I’m holding onto nothing Over the last two days, we have discussed debt-to-income ratios and how people are financing current purchases [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 20:30:15

DrumBeat: December 10, 2008

U.S. gasoline use to decline most since 1979-80 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. gasoline demand is expected to decline more sharply this year and next than in any other two-year period since 1979-1980, the federal Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 13:52:25

Lectures on Macroeconomics, No. 12

This lecture speculates on some possible behavioral economics of booms and recessions. The idea is that herd behavior (buying at the top, selling at the bottom) is a form of procrastination. As I write this, on January 1st, 2009, the U.S. economy is in recession [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 15:25:41

Hyderabad-Based Application Provider for Retail Stores Raises $1M

Hyderabad-Based Application Provider for Retail Stores Raises $1M By VCCircle - Thu 08 Jan 2009 11: ... investors in the first round included Atim Kabra of Frontline Ventures, Raman Kumar of Cbay Systems, Ashish ... products, brands, or sales locally, and to scan the inventory at any given shopping center. The company [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:34:08

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 13 January 2009

FINTAG COMMENT Naughty children. Bad parenting is caused by not following up threats with actions, or praise with chocolate ... SVM Asset Management, the Edinburgh based independent fund management group, says its SVM Highlander [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 15:10:19

Sale of Business

The sale of a business usually is not a sale of one asset. Instead, all the assets of the business are sold. Generally, when this occurs, each asset is treated as being sold separately for determining ... on each asset is figured separately. The sale of capital assets results in capital gain or loss [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 15:57:00

THE INCOME STATEMENT

The income statement reports the revenues, expenses, and net income for a fiscal period ... as an asset (Inventory) until goods are sold. Then the costs are matched against the revenues ... is the cost of the merchandise inventory sold during a period. For a manufacturing company, cost of goods [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 05:32:53

SAManage Launches IT Asset Management Application for Salesforce

Application provides a one-stop solution for managing IT Assets within Salesforce and integrating with Salesforce Service & Support ... of secure, Software-as-a-Service IT Management solut ... . SAManage, a leading provider of on-demand (SaaS) IT Management services, today announced [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 05:02:00

Let Them Eat Treasurys

Good Evening: Today the U.S. capital markets continued the slow healing process that began on November 21 ... of the latest inventory figures. Inventories shrank by what looked to be an impressive 1.1 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 05:30:22

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