The Lippard Blog

I haven't posted one of these things in a while, so I figured it was about time. The big peak was in March, with a total of 10,725 that ...

In April 2009, the city of Phoenix received $40 million in federal stimulus money under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. This progra...

The Center for Public Integrity, an organization I support, has just published the results of an investigation into the roots of the recent ...

At the Financial Times (with more detail for each item): 1. What is fragile should break early while it is still small. 2. No socia...

A banker who resisted the urge to invest in toxic assets during the boom is cleaning up during the bust . Andy Beal of Beal Bank in Plano, ...

$10.1 billion in federal stimulus money has been released to the states by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Arizona is r...

Yesterday the Arizona Republic had an interactive foreclosure map and document of data (PDF) which includes the monthly foreclosure stati...

Gee, who was completely full of crap? I love the captions--Dow over 13,000 and Ben Stein is saying now's the time to buy... Merrill...

October set a new record of 8,503 notices of trustee's sales in Maricopa County, of which 900 were duplicates of previous notices. The ...

Colorado College political science professor David Hendrickson has put together a nice resource at his new "Cause for Depression" ...

IM conversation between two Standard & Poore's employees, April 2007, as revealed in testimony before Congress today: Shannon Mooney...

An article at Time magazine suggests that those following the "prosperity theology" of some Pentecostal ministers are more likel...

The bailout bill has a few extra features: * Sec. 105. Energy credit for geothermal heat pump systems. * Sec. 111. Expansion and modificatio...

The New York Times , September 11, 2003 : "These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial c...

Craig Cantoni has pointed out the following January 19, 2004 press release from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development : BUSH ...

As Jim pointed out here , Maricopa County saw another record month for pre-foreclosures - though AZ Central's count is different than mi...

CNN reports : Foreclosures hit another record high in August: 304,000 homes were in default and 91,000 families lost their houses. More than...

See the story at BLDGBLOG . (Thanks for the link, Reed!)

I received a letter in the mail from Chase Bank offering me a fee waiver on a mortgage refinance to "lower [my] monthly payments,"...

I bought my first house 10 years ago, in July, 1998. Prior to the purchase I was living in a nearby apartment complex, paying $435/month for...