Posted on Wednesday, 3rd February 2010 by chrisjones
Markets: Blah blah up just a little blah FED blah blah blah GDP growth blah unemployment numbers blah blah blah. It’s Groundhog Day (again. What, it’s not Feb 2 where you are?). Of COURSE the markets are doing the same thing day after day.
Analysis: Nobody believes the economic reports. Government data is having essentially no [...]
Tags: lehi lender, lehi mortgages, RateWatch
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Posted on Friday, 29th January 2010 by chrisjones
This is another of an occasional Series of Short Takes on salient issues of the day. Unlike most of these, this one is neither religious not political, although if you’re looking for a way to get in your daily quota of being-offended-by-someone, then you’ve come to the right place.
Some of our children - four, I [...]
Tags: civility, rudeness
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Posted on Thursday, 21st January 2010 by chrisjones
Markets: A slow burn downward has reversed itself, and the market has now gained ground four of the past five days. This keeps rates firmly at 5%, and even lower than that on some programs for those with great credit.
Analysis: It just doesn’t appear that there is any steam in the bond selloff. The latest [...]
Tags: Lehi mortgage, RateWatch, Twelfth Night, Twelfth Night Charity Ball
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Posted on Tuesday, 12th January 2010 by chrisjones
Markets: Bonds were up slightly today, trading up against a line of resistance. For the uninitiated, a line of resistance is an average, usually a 25-day or 50-day or 100 day, or what have you, that cuts across the bond price chart. Those lines form “resistance”, against which bond prices have to push in order [...]
Tags: lehi mortgages, RateWatch, Twelfth Night
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Posted on Thursday, 7th January 2010 by chrisjones
Seriously, if you’re not waiting with bated breath for every installment of Uncle Orson Reviews Everything, there’s something deeply wrong with you. But today, well, today I read the latest installment, in which Uncle Orson (Orson Scott Card, for the layman, author of Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, and a couple dozen other novels [...]
Tags: Barbara Bova, Orson Scott Card, writing
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