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Posts Tagged ‘housing bubble’

TODAY WE ARE ALL EDMUND ANDREWS

There’s a 13% Chance You’re Not Making Your House Payment

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

'It's not a house,' said Judas Priest, 'It's not a house . . . it's a home.'Remember the Housing Bubble and the gazillion bullshit mortgages that caused the entire global economy to collapse and send us into a terrible World Depression? It’s still going down! The housing crash, that is — one in eight homeowners is now either in default or in foreclosure, a new record! MORE »


DAS KAPITAL

Bush/Paulson’s New Communist America Can’t Even Fix Housing Collapse

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Yes, tomorrow is finally here.Turns out we didn’t need “stealth socialist” Barack Obama to pervert capitalist America into a crumbling nationalized economy run in private by a dome-skulled kleptocracy as our nation’s battered military wastes away in the forgotten bummer of a civil war in Afghanistan. WAIT A MINUTE that is exactly what happened in the Soviet Union! And the so-called Republicans did it, because they are Fiscal Socialists! MORE »


REAL ESTATE

Eliot Spitzer Now Screwing Distressed Homeowners

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Ohhhhhh! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrring! YipYipYipYipYipYipYipDisgraced whore-fucker Eliot Spitzer is done with this “help people with their lives” nonsense, now that he doesn’t have to govern New York or shut down prostitution rings while patronizing those same prostitution rings. He is ready to earn ONE BILLION WHORE DIAMONDS by becoming a “vulture” real-estate flipper. MORE »


BILL CLINTON

Old Jazzbo Hippie Claims Cheney Just Invaded Iraq For The Oil

Monday, September 17th, 2007

hippie - WonketteSome little hipster clarinet player from NYU is claiming the Iraq invasion and occupation was all about securing oil supplies for America. Oh and what is that sticking out of Jazzbo Al’s tattered raincoat? A worn paperback of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” which he actually first read when she was writing it, when he was screwing some gal in Rand’s “inner circle” and writing angry letters to the New York Times about how “parasites who persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should.” That’s right, we’re talking about former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan! MORE »


METRO SECTION

Metro Section: Food, Money and 90s Celebrities

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

* Free Starbucks tomorrow. [DCFUD]
* At $50,000 a year, GW is the nation’s most expensive college. Nine local kids will now attend for free. [Read Express]
* RE: DC housing market: “For those of us with decent credit, watching all the posers getting foreclosed is like watching cheap porn in the middle of the night.” [TC The Terrible]
* Review of the closing of the DC Independent Film Festival and not meeting Kiefer Sutherland, “there was the adult man chanting ‘kiefer! kiefer!’ during the film festival award proceedings, impatient to skip right past the awards and movie and see kiefer.” [Life Off Balance]
* Baked and Wired has best cupcakes in town, according to WP and CakeLove serves some of their cupcakes at room temp now. [Eat Foo]


DC

DC Housing Bubble: Finally Interesting!

Monday, August 7th, 2006

turano.jpgCongratulations to Dominic Turano, incoming president of the Washington Area Realtors Board: MORE »