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Wicked

By Wahl, on August 24, 2010, at 1:03 pm | Leave a comment

Good thing I spent all that time building out KohlerHome.com for my parents this month. If today’s housing data is any marker, and knowing my dad’s lack of urgency to sell for anything but a great/fair/pre-2008 price, it’ll probably be a bit before they sell:

– The Atlantic: How Bad Was July’s Plummet in [...]

For Sale By Owner

By Wahl, on August 9, 2010, at 5:19 pm | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

On and off for the last couple of weeks, including pretty much this entire past weekend, I have been building a website for my parents to sell their home. I don’t know a lick of HTML, so it made things a little tricky, but I’ve learned enough about website design and manipulation from [...]

Longer. Deeper. And Flat at the Bottom.

By Wahl, on August 6, 2010, at 10:41 am | Comments are closed

New unemployment numbers are out today. A quick recap from Calculated Risk:

Longer. Deeper. And flat at the bottom. Unfortunately that describes the 2007 employment recession.

This graph shows the job losses from the start of the employment recession, in percentage terms – this time aligned at the bottom of the recession (Both [...]

The Job Hunt

By Wahl, on May 23, 2010, at 8:22 pm | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

It’s a process…

From: Pearls Before Swine

One Of These Is Not Like The Other

By Wahl, on April 9, 2010, at 1:04 pm | Comments are closed

Jobs, please.

Strategic Default

By Wahl, on March 17, 2010, at 9:41 am | Comments are closed

Most of my friends who have bought properties have do so in the last year or two. But I know a few that bought back in 2005, 2006, and 2007 that are probably at least a little underwater on their mortgages if they actually tried to sell their places. Probably not to the [...]

When You Dip, I Dip, We Dip

By Wahl, on March 15, 2010, at 9:22 am | Comments are closed

By most accounts, the trillion dollars worth of stimulus money is running out. And yet, our economy really isn’t coming back. That is why a number of economists warn of a double dip recession. Because if organic growth isn’t there, and the free money from Bush and Obama runs out, then the economy will [...]

Still There

By Wahl, on March 5, 2010, at 8:12 am | Comments are closed

I’ve posted this chart periodically over the last year. But it always help to have a little refresher when new jobs reports come out:

Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (-36,000) in February, and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment fell in construction [...]

Minimal IQ

By Wahl, on December 18, 2009, at 6:33 am | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Fox News, solving the unemployment crisis one crazy idea at a time:

That’s exactly what we want! Get the unemployment rate down by lowering minimum wage for workers, thus lowering the standard of living for more Americans — but hey, at least more people would have sh*tty jobs, [...]

120% Monkey F-ck Ridiculous

By Wahl, on December 9, 2009, at 5:17 pm | Comments are closed

Jon Stewart’s comedic genius vs. Fox News — always a good time.

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