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Will your 2010 tax return mess up your 2011 Charlotte Home Purchase?

With the last minute tax legislation that passed in December of 2010, the IRS won’t be ready to accept some tax returns until Mid-February.  For some home buyers in Charlotte, this could mess up their plans to buy a house in the Spring of 2011. According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, [...]

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Young couples should rent

A opinion piece in Investment News claimed that ‘For young couples, renting may be a better option”.  I hate headlines like that  – they are designed to get your attention, but most people don’t have the time to read the article.  They end up with this piece of random advice floating around their head that [...]

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Charlotte Home Prices (in Years)

How far back have home priecsin charlotte, NC, fallen?  The charts below from John Burns and Case Schiller, give a good insight.  Thanks to Calculated Risk for crunching the numbers and providing the charts. John Burns uses median price information:  (Click on the graph for a larger chart in a new window): Looking at the [...]

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Like Apologizing for Friends the Morning after a Bender

Jon Stewart on The Daily Show has a way of putting his finger on things.  In this interview with Austan Goolsbee, chair of the Council of Economic Advisors,  took a couple of licks from Stewart, who equated Goolsbee’s position to a guy who has to apologize for his friends the morning after a bender. The [...]

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Inflation Means your Dollars Buy Less

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Most people think Inflation means that things get more expensive.  They also think “Deflation’ means that prices are dropping. Peter Schiff, a former US Senate candidate and President of Euro-Pacific Capital, famously called the housing bubble explosion before it happened.  He recently wrote a good article responding to NY Fed President William Dudley’s recent speech.  By: Peter Schiff [...]

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