Cirios Wire Check - 2/25/2009
A DAILY LOOK AT THE STORIES YOU SHOULD BE READING
Real Estate
- Yahoo! Finance thinks you should be looking at taking out a HELOC. The number of Americans eligible for such a loan shrunk while you were reading the article.
- US existing home sales fall again, analysis to follow later today.
- Job losses and reality are starting to put pressure on mortgage applications.
- After years of winning, renters may actually be losing their edge in some markets. This losing streak is probably not accurate in your area
Finance
- Should we be less concerned about Steve Jobs health than with how we heard about it? One Apple shareholder thinks so.
- The Chronicle is in big trouble. I think we are all going to miss their biased sports reporting.
- The Unpaid Furlough = the “in” way to get laid off.
- Fed chief Ben Bernanke agrees with us that unchecked foreclosures will pull the economy down further than necessary.
Ciriosly Funny
- Schwarzenegger and Stallone are finally teaming up to battle evil….or maybe just to make the worst movie of all time.