Tuesday January 22 Housing and Economic stories

Top Stories:

Treasure Coast rents fall as housing glut grows - (www.palmbeachpost.com)
8 Norwegian Towns In Crisis After Illegal Subprime Deals -AFP - (money.cnn.com)
How we cashed in before the housing crash - (www.latimes.com)
Money: Humbled housesellers - (www.ocregister.com)
The Panic Stage - (online.wsj.com)
WestLB to take $1.5 billion loss - (www.iht.com)
Parking spots sold as condos - (www.thestar.com)
Shares suffer biggest fall since September 11 2001 - (www.ft.com)
Panic sparks plunge in global markets - (www.ft.com)
Tide of lawsuits approaches troubled U.S. mortgage market - (www.iht.com)


Other Stories:

Why Baby Boomers May Bust the Housing Market - (blogs.wsj.com)
Housing Crisis? How About Buying a House You Can Afford! - (www.mybudget360.com)
Tycoon's 'Mission' a neighborhood eyesore - (www.honoluluadvertiser.com)
Foreclosures, Lenders' Preferred Fix - (www.washingtonpost.com)
Why Goldman Sachs Was Short CDOs - (seekingalpha.com)
The big stinking steaming heap of debt - (www.republic-news.org)
Inflationists vs. Deflationists: Who's Right? - (www.seekingalpha.com)
The Argument For Gold - (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Fiscal "Stimulus" Doomed To Fail - (Mish - globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/)
How Greenspan's policies hurt you - (articles.moneycentral.msn.com)
Federal Reserve Illustrated In Legos - (www.youtube.com)

Cost of insuring corporate debt soars – (www.ft.com)
As Woes Mount, Recession Looms - (online.wsj.com)
U.S. May Be Heading for Severe Recession, Economists Tell (online.wsj.com) - (www.bloomberg.com)
Median house price tumbles 15% in California - (www.businessweek.com)
Falling house prices? Good news! - (commentisfree.guardian.co.uk)
American house prices: Baby boom and bust - (www.economist.com)
Global economic crisis 'serious': IMF Chief - (money.cnn.com)
Will the cure be worse than the disease? - (www.fortune.com)
Rebates: No big deal for stores - (money.cnn.com)


Sentiment shifts as credit woes sink in - (www.ft.com)
U.S. Worries Deliver a New Jolt Overseas - (www.nytimes.com)
Outside auto show, a stalled state - (www.latimes.com)
Sears Holding to reorganize retail stores - (www.chicagotribune.com)
ACA Customers Allow More Time to Unwind Default Swaps - (www.bloomberg.com)
Bond Issuers Face New Costs In Insurance Crisis - (www.forbes.com)
Nissan Sees US As Tough Market for Sales - (www.chicagotribune.com)

Investors Abandon French Banks - (www.forbes.com)
BoJ set to downgrade outlook - (www.ft.com)
China's banks feel subprime heat - (www.ap.com)
Steep fall in UK mortgage lending - (www.ft.com)