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Friday, January 24, 2014

The Boom And Collapse Of America's 'Subprime Generation' by Chris Porter

Talk about an amazing reversal of fortune! This may be the most amazing, underreported demographic fact today.
  • 30-34 year olds in 2012 had the lowest homeownership rate of any similarly aged group before them!
  • Five years prior, this exact same group had the highest homeownership rate at 25-29 years old than any group before them!

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Vancouver’s housing prices 2nd most unaffordable in the world By Peter Meiszner


An urban planning think tank says Metro Vancouver has the second-highest housing prices in the world when compared to local incomes.
Demographia compared urban areas with over 1,000,000 residents in OECD countries around the world.
They say Vancouver’s “strong urban containment policies” have caused the city’s affordability to “deteriorate markedly.”

The average house price in Metro Vancouver is $670,300, which would require 80 per cent of the average median household income to service the mortgage. That’s more than 2.5 times the 32 per cent guideline set out by Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Wells Fargo to stop short-term cash-advance loans by McClatchy-Tribune

In November, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency directed banks to evaluate a customer's income, expenses and ability to pay before providing a deposit advance loan.

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Bove Slams Regulators' New Payday Lending Rules

 Why should banks be allowed to lend to consumers at annual interest rates as high as 300%?

Because the alternative is far worse, according to Rafferty Capital Markets analyst Richard Bove.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency late last year issued new rules to govern "deposit advance products," which everyone else calls payday loans.  These short-term loans -- called "payday loans" by everyone else --   are made to checking account customers in anticipation of direct deposits of salary payments or other regular direct deposits.

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