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• Why is Bad News so Good?
• Credit Crisis
• How Bad Can It Get?
• Crude Oil Blowoff?
• Voting With Their Feet
• Four Days in March
• Do You Want to Know?
• The Retail Challenge
• Leading Indicators
• MBIA and Ambac Bankruptcy?
• A Complete Fiction
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• Where Did It Begin?
• Employment
• The Wizard
• Inflation: the Big Lie!
• Is Liquidity Always a Good Thing?
• Seconds Anyone?

Estate Planning

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The Galveston Economy

• Capitalism For Those Without Capital: Raising  Galveston Incomes!
• Wrong-Businesses-For-Islands-Economy!
• The Galveston Economy: Diagnosis and Cure!
• First Annual GEDP Economic Outlook Conference
• Downtown Businesses Unify to Lobby the City
• Public Bathrooms for Downtown Galveston!
• Downtown Retail Sales
• Texas Sales Report 4Q 2007
• The 2010 Election Campaign Starts Now
• Election Campaign 2010
• Texas Sales Report 3Q 2007
• Island Needs a New Party to Solve All Its Problems
• The Formation of the Galveston Founders Party
• An Offer We Can't Refuse!
• Downtown Needs Profit Before Staid Preservation
• The City's Downtown Plan
• Way to the Future for Historic Downtown
• Downtown Galveston: Under New Management?
• Strand Businesses Lose Most at Special Events!
• Who Really Owns The Strand?
• Let's Get Back to Island's Victorian Roots Again
• Galveston and the "Slow Movement"
• Figures Show Island's Economy Weakening Rapidly
• Galveston: Recession 2008?



• The Galveston Housing Bubble: A Presentation to the Galveston Planning Commission 08 January 2008



• 21st Century Parking Meters Eliminate the  Hassles Downtown
• A Marketing Plan for the City of Galveston!
• Emerald by the Sea: Update
• The First Domino
• Downtown Parking Meters: a Solution
• Galveston's Future - Disaster or Prosperity
• The Unholy Alliance
• THE BIG PICTURE: the impact of the real estate bubble on Galveston
• Tourist Trap That's a Sales-Revenue Sap
• Retail Sales Per Capita
• Does Island's Economy Measure Up?
• Ease of Doing Business
• Real Story on Island Real Estate
• Is There a "Boom" in Galveston?
• Galveston Employment
• Island's Dismal Sales Mystery Needs Resolution
• Vacation Homes
  
• The Galveston Real Estate Bubble
• Retail Sales to Tourists
• Galveston Total Sales
• Galveston Retail Sales
• The Galveston Economy: an Overview
• Galveston Already Has Too Many Vacant Houses
• Housing Supply Too High for More Development
  
• Galveston Real Estate Data
• The Lasker Home Auction 
• The Plague of Vacant Houses
• The Lasker Home
• Texas Real Estate
• The Galveston Real Estate Market

Gold and Silver

• A Gold and Silver Top?
• Gold: Price Versus Value

Health-Related Issues

• Affordable Eyeglaases


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Investments

• Texas Tax-Deed Auctions!
• Is Your Money Safe?
• Buy The Dollar?
• Investment Psychology
• Buy Tax Lien Certificates

 
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Money Management

Mortgages

• Is It Contained?
• The Sub-Prime Meltdown
• Adjustable Rate Mortgages
• Home Equity Loans
• Interest-Only Mortgage Companies
• What Lenders Look For
• Reverse Mortgages
• Poor-Credit Second Mortgage Loans

Real Estate
• Where's the Plunge?
• House of Cards
• The International-Residential-Real-Estate Bubble
• Home Owner Equity
• Potential Supply
• Tapped Out!
• Auctions!
• Home Prices Do Fall: A look at the 1980's real estate collapse
• Home Builders
• Sounds Familiar!
• Is This What Happened?
• Cuyahoga County: Coming To Your Town?
• Investing in Residential Real Estate
• Protecting Yourself During a Real Estate Decline
• Don't Shoot the Messenger
• The Case for a Housing Bubble
• Arson and the Housing Bubble
• How Low Can Prices Go?
• Real Estate Bubble Part 1
• Real Estate Bubble Part 2
• Real Estate Bubble Part 3
• A Home Boom Busts
• The Real Estate Bubble
• Evidence of a CA Housing Bubble
• Risks of a Serious Home Price Decline
• Home Prices Slipping

Stock Market

• The Stock Market: the Beginning, or the End?
• Panic!
• Expected Returns
• Are Stocks Cheap?
• Words of Wisdom?
• Meltdown
• Stock Market Divergences
• Stocks and Inflation
• Long Valuation Waves Part Two
• Long Valuation Waves Part One

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