Jas Jain

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• The California Housing Report: Details In the Data Show A Broad-based Price Decline

  Published 27 May 2007 | viewed 7,446 times

  Headline: "C.A.R. [California Association of Realtors] reports sales decrease 27.8 percent in April, median price of a home in California at $597,640, up 6.2 percent…

• Inventory and Sales Of Single Family Homes In Santa Clara County For April 07

  Published 10 May 2007 | viewed 4,268 times

  The median price for the county in April increased 12.1%, YoY, more than I expected, led by increased prices and volume in high-priced areas like…

• "Hidden" Home Price Decline In Silicon Valley

  Published 15 April 2007 | viewed 6,244 times

  The home price declines in Silicon Valley are anything but hidden for most people trying to sell their homes, but it doesn't seem to show…

• The Silicon Valley Housing Report

  Published 28 January 2007 | viewed 6,230 times

  The Silicon Valley Housing Report In this report you will see facts, based on the available data, that you will not find anywhere else. Vast…

• Is the Commodities Bull Getting Buried Under the Housing Rubble?

  Published 10 January 2007 | viewed 8,131 times

  Please look at the following graph and see if you can spot correlation between the US Housing Bubble and the DJ-AIG commodity index (DJ-AIGCI, a…

• Has Housing Bottomed In the US? Data and Fifth Grade Math Says NO

  Published 21 December 2006 | viewed 10,346 times

  Act I. Scene - a fifth grade math class in a small farm town in MO. "Good morning class." "Good morning, Mr. Scambuster." "What state…

• Employment and Recessions (Short and "Sweet"): A Picture Worth Thousand Words

  Published 08 December 2006 | viewed 5,852 times

  When Wall Street and Federal Reserve economists point to the current employment growth as a sign of the economy's health, over the next few quarters,…

• Graphic Illustration That Scam Lovers Are the Real Turkeys

  Published 19 November 2006 | viewed 6,384 times

  NOTE: This is an original work. Permission is granted to all to forward, post, or publish, whole or in part, with credit to the author.…

• Facts On Housing Boom-Bust Cycles and Recessions

  Published 12 November 2006 | viewed 6,700 times

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• American Housing Horror Show: Twice As Many Units Built Than the Demand!

  Published 06 September 2006 | viewed 16,025 times

  Note: Permission is granted to all to forward, post or publish with credit to the author. I will let the facts and charts do most…

• Peak Debt!

  Published 04 September 2006 | viewed 17,370 times

  Ref: 01/23/2005 US: Debt History & Secular GDP; http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/2005/0123.html. I am no expert on Peak Oil, but Peak Oil is not the urgent problem that…

• The Pause That Depresses: Recession to Begin Within Six Months and Depression Prior to 2008Q2

  Published 28 August 2006 | viewed 16,215 times

  Clouds are gathering over the US economy and quite a few highly informed people can now see them. What is not understood is that this…

• Observations on California Housing, August 2006

  Published 06 August 2006 | viewed 5,090 times

  The good news is that things have stabilized, or they are "less bad, " as a professional real estate person would surmise. In Santa Clara…

• Santa Clara Co. Home Prices: Lagging Versus Leading Data

  Published 27 July 2006 | viewed 6,322 times

  The median price of resale SFHs (single family homes) that closed escrow in June 2006, in Santa Clara County, was $819,950, an all time high,…

• Observations on California Housing, July 2006

  Published 04 July 2006 | viewed 10,049 times

  Why focus on California housing? Because it is a big deal - it represents some 25% of the dollar value of the US housing, or…

• Yield-Curve, Inflation, and Recessions: Are Recessions Necessary to Control Inflation in the US?

  Published 17 June 2006 | viewed 9,493 times

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• Capitulation of Noted Pundits: A Momentous Event for the Economy and Financial Markets?

  Published 21 May 2006 | viewed 6,594 times

  During 1997-98, when the US stock market had exceeded all prior valuations and all historical signs of warnings were being ignored, it was clear to…

• A Tale of Two Bubbles

  Published 14 May 2006 | viewed 7,019 times

  My prediction of a recession in the US to begin in 2006 is based on a very simple premise - The Housing Bubble contributed far…

• Hidden Depression In Silly.con Valley & the Seismic Shift In the SF Bay Area Population

  Published 03 April 2006 | viewed 11,557 times

  NOTE 1: Please feel free to forward and post. Permission is granted to all for publication of the whole or parts. NOTE 2: Please remember…

• Accurate Characterization of Yield-Curve and Recession Probabilities

  Published 06 March 2006 | viewed 7,920 times

  Ref [1] http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/jain/2006/0226.html Ref [2] http://www.safehaven.com/showarticle.cfm?id=4686 There has been massive propaganda by Federal Reserve System (FRS) and the financial media to downplay the Inversion of…