Category: Lending (page 26 of 56)

I can’t tell if it’s a lucky break or an exquisitely-executed long con, but the Dominion software is what will keep China Joe out of the White House – and may even put him in the big house. The plan, I’m guessing, was to move all races leftward by a few points, creating the poll-predicted ‘blue wave.’ But Trump and the Republicans won by such huge numbers that they had to cave on the wave and just dump naked ballots at Trump. It’s looking like every bit of this will be exposed – and heaven help us if it is not.

Think of this: We were united as a nation on Tuesday – and China Joe stole that, too.

Redfin: 91,000 More People Moved Into Arizona than Out Last Year, Likely Tilting it Blue. CTRL-F ‘riot’; not found – but jeepers, look at all them riot-torn cities feeding growth in The Valley of the Ever-Fecund Sun. Redfin running cover for the Democrats is a bad look.

Housing Wire: The exodus continues: Northeastern housing markets fill up with former city dwellers. CTRL-F ‘riot’; not found.

City Journal: Mayor Myopic: New York City faces a massive fiscal crisis and a private economy in tatters, but all Bill de Blasio seems to care about is preventing public-employee layoffs.

Joel Kotkin: California and Its Contradictions: Rumblings of realignment beneath a solid-blue surface.

City Journal: Ballot Initiatives Go Bust: The vote on several big state referendums diverged sharply from surveys, suggesting that it’s not just presidential preferences that voters are concealing.

BBC News: Vote rigging: How to spot the tell-tale signs.

The American Report: Biden Using SCORECARD and THE HAMMER To Steal Another U.S. Presidential Election — Just Like Obama And Biden Did In 2012. Very fringy, but fascinating.

Odysseus told you Wednesday what to look for: Voting only for President, only for Biden. Same pattern in many fraud-states: Too many ballots to fake. The specific voters being disenfranchised are urban Ants – wise enough to know better, unable to escape. That’s how much any lives matter to the Deep State. Like him or don’t, Trump is all the dragon-slayer you have, with perpetual Chinese dragon-slavery as your undoubted alternative.

Redfin: Housing Market Update: 15% Price Growth Shows No Signs of Letting Up. CTRL-F ‘riot’; not found – even though the riots are all over their charts. Imagine a company less likely to tell the truth about the real estate consequences of Marxism than Redfin, facing a lawsuit for being insufficiently Marxist. News about the devastation in riot-torn cities will have to come from elsewhere.

CNBC: Homeowners and buyers are the real winners in this election.

CNBC: Fed holds rates near zero — here’s how that benefits Americans and their wallets.

Housing Wire: The vote is in: Borrowers want RON. Me, too.

Housing Wire: What would the CFPB look like under a Biden administration? We’ve lived for four years under steadily waning regulation. Who wanted that to change?

Zero Hedge: Companies Join Exodus To Suburbs As Cities Transform Into “Ghost Towns”. Someone should tell Redfin about this.

Zero Hedge: Why Does Biden Have So Many More Votes Than Democrat Senators In Swing States?

The Federalist: We’re Supposed To Believe The GOP Had A Great Election Night Except For President?

The Federalist: Polling Isn’t The Problem, Intentionally False Media Polls Are The Problem.

Richard Fernandez: A New Correlation of Forces.

David Solway: If a Won Election Is Not Reported, Is It a Won Election?

Michael Anton: Game-On for the Coup?

City Journal: Texas Is Still Texas—For Now: The Lone Star State is changing, but not in the way that everyone assumes.

Silver linings stories abound, and they’re not wrong: America caught a glimpse of Critical Theory Marxism and blanched in horror. It remains to be seen if the man who brought peace to the Middle East can survive his current railroading, but it is beyond dismaying to think that half of America voted for war and slavery. I crave better news…

Housing Wire: What would a Trump win mean for housing?

Housing Wire: What a Biden victory would mean for housing.

FEE.org: California Voters Just Saved Uber and Lyft From Regulatory Destruction.

City Journal: Colorblind California: The defeat of Proposition 16 is a blow to elites obsessed with racial-identity politics.

American Greatness: Election Night Confirmed the Polls Were Lies.

The Federalist: Yes, Democrats Are Trying To Steal The Election In Michigan, Wisconsin, And Pennsylvania.

Glenn Greenwald: The U.S. Inability To Count Votes is a National Disgrace. And Dangerous.

City Journal: A Noisy Place: Our exhausting and not-yet-settled election of 2020 should remind us that America has rarely been “one nation, indivisible.”

City Journal: Election Month.

City Journal: The Winner? It Might Be the Administrative State.

The Washington Examiner: The biggest loser of election 2020: Identity politics.

Marxism hasn’t stunk up 2020 quite enough yet. While the rest of the world is amazed Trump did so well, I am dismayed he did so poorly. I thought every values-loving person could picture everything he loves going up in flames and choose accordingly. And while it may yet redeem itself, don’t even get me started on Arizona.

Today we find out how committed the Democrats are to obvious cheating, and how serious Trump is about defending his rights. Who knows? We might even discover what Bill Barr has been doing with his time…

Housing Wire: Home prices jump 6.7% in September, but are expected to moderate.

CNBC: Jumbo and FHA mortgage rates set record lows, juicing refinance demand.

City Journal: The Limits of Rhetoric: Noble-sounding words won’t improve failing cities, especially for minority residents.

City Journal: The “Transition from Oil” and Other Fairy Tales.

The Federalist: The New Contras’ Insurgence Against Legacy Media Is Only Getting Hotter.

City Journal: In Defense of the Electoral College.

Issues and Insights: What We Know Already About Election 2020.

The Conservative Treehouse: Election Night Turns to Post Election Day – Outcome Remains Unknown. Sundance will be a comprehensive resource on the election litigation, if any.

Doomed to repeat it? History is being made before your eyes. Soon it may be running down your cheeks – or draining from an embalming table.

If you click on nothing else, watch the Tucker Carlson video. If the link doesn’t work (Youtube is fragile), search for another one.

Housing Wire: Home price index sees greatest gain in over 2 years. CTRL-F ‘riot’; not found. Phoenix wins, and soon will win still more.

CNBC: Homebuyer demand may have peaked as mortgage applications eke out a weekly gain. CTRL-F ‘riot’; not found. Let’s see what happens next week…

Housing Wire: Refis lead the way as mortgage applications rise 1.7%.

Tucker Carlson Tonight: Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski details his role in Joe Biden’s influence-peddling syndicate. See the DISC? Ci attacks the Sociability in Cs. Yet another unforced error in a year full of them.

PJ Media: Bobulinski Bombshell: The Bidens are ‘Compromised’ and Lying About Joe’s Knowledge of Hunter’s Deals With China.

The Federalist: The Hunter Biden Scandal Has Exposed The Corporate Press’s Corruption And Condescension.

Sarah J. Hoyt: How the Left Is Using Americans’ Empathy and Decency to Destroy Us.

The Washington Examiner: College undergrads: America is racist, looting ‘justified,’ reparations required.

Tyler O’Neil: Democrats Give Away the Game: They Want the Supreme Court to Unilaterally Amend the Constitution.

The American Mind: OK, Senator: Amy Coney Barrett puts the nail in the coffin of TV politics.

What’s the least-worst part about Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation? For a welcome change, the left didn’t mount a huge, bogus smear campaign. That just means they’re effecting their evil elsewhere – e.g., court-packing – but it was nice to see a lady being treated almost like a lady.

CNBC: Home prices in August see biggest gains in more than two years, S&P Case Shiller says. CTRL-F ‘riot’; not found.

Housing Wire: Holy smokes — new home sales are up 32.1% year over year. CTRL-F ‘riot’; not found.

Forbes: The Hottest Housing Markets Right Now In 2020. CTRL-F ‘riot’; not found.

Housing Wire: The Three Cs of Post-Forbearance.

The Washington Examiner: Trump is forcing voters to grow up.

The Federalist: Big Tech Is Turning The United States Into A Giant Company Town.

Brendan O’Neill: People must have the right to mock Muhammad. Charlie Hebdo is right to republish the cartoons that caused such barbarism in 2015.

City Journal: Unfriending Free Speech: Who will guard the gatekeepers of our political discourse?

Issues and Insights: Left’s Post-Election Agenda: More Riots, ‘Truth Commissions,’ Other Punishment For Their Foes — That Means You.

City Journal: It’s Now the Barrett Court: The newest justice will change the dynamic among her colleagues.

If you find yourself feeling sorry for China Joe Biden – all he has to do is get the hell out of the way.

Yesterday on BloodhoundBlog, me:

Greg Swann: Dear Daniel Morillo: Here’s why #OpenDoor’s houses sell so poorly – even in a blistering real estate market.

Outside our kennel:

Forbes: Demand Is Rising For Properties In Vacation Home Markets. CTRL-F ‘riot’; not found.

Vice: We Don’t Mine Enough Rare Earth Metals to Replace Fossil Fuels With Renewable Energy.

LifeSite: Shock poll claims 30% of U.S. women under 25 identify as LGBT: dire implications. Sell homes or home loans? Why do people want those things? Every kid deserves a back yard? What happens when there are a lot fewer kids?

Matt Taibbi: With the Hunter Biden Expose, Suppression is a Bigger Scandal Than The Actual Story.

Roger Kimball: A Momentous Election: Donald Trump may be an odd ambassador of freedom. But Joe Biden is but a gibbering front for a vanguard that would destroy America as traditionally conceived.

Angelo Codevilla: The Election to End All Elections: Trump, imperfect as he is, is like a finger in a dike that, if removed, would loose a deluge.

City Journal: Educating Patriots: In his “farewell” book, E. D. Hirsch, our foremost thinker on American schooling, sets his sights on fixing America itself.

Trump – or, rather, Trump Derangement Syndrome – gets people to reveal themselves. The Deep State is all-in for Biden, and Hunter’s laptop is showing you exactly who the Deep State is. If Trump wins, and if we’re very lucky, he rolls up the whole crime syndicate. If not? It rolls up you – and the whole world with you.

Forbes: Mortgage Rates Fall To 50-Year Low.

The Daily Caller: Chelsea Truck Company To Release A Bulletproof Jeep Wrangler ‘Protest Edition’ Following ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protests. How can you know for sure there are no riots? Because there are no riot-created market opportunities.

The Federalist: Of Course New York City Is A Ghost Town.

The Washington Examiner: The Second Amendment is as necessary today as it has ever been.

PJMedia: The Hunter Biden Corruption Scandal Is a Reckoning for the Legacy Media.

City Journal: Anarchy in New York? One senses order slipping away.

Don Feder: When Your House is Burning Down, Grab a Fire Extinguisher Fast: The one man who stands between us and the revolution.

City Journal: Wokefornia: California’s ethnic-studies mandate for K‒12ers is dead for now, but cultural Marxism is flourishing.

Can’t seem to get a grip on the news? Can’t quite put your finger on the problem? Feeling overexposed, despite your isolation? We’ve got you covered – everything but your lap top:

CNBC: Homebuilder sentiment sets another record high in October. The Valley of the Ever-Fecund Sun is festooned with sticks. Cranes, too.

Housing Wire: What could drive mortgage rates in 2021?.

Housing Wire: Mortgage forbearance rate falls to lowest level since mid-April at 5.92%.

Paul Bedard: ‘Broken Arrow’: Cities and police ready for election violence.

Daily Caller: ‘The City Will Be On Fire’: New Yorkers Reportedly Prepare To Flee Homes To Avoid Election-Related Unrest.

The Federalist: We Gamed Out The 2020 Election And Found Our Constitution Can Handle The Madness.

Frontpage: Twitter Operates as Biden’s Censorship Arm.

Joel Kotkin: Democratic Civil War.

Reason: San Francisco Won’t Reopen Schools. But It Will Rename Them.

Yesterday Donald Trump worked his normal day, gave a two-hour speech at a rally, then fought off Savannah Guthrie, armed with still more DNC talking points. He won the crowd, resoundingly, and could have scored with a bedazzled Biden voter among the townhall questioners. With frequent breaks, Joe Biden did not visibly collapse on stage. Neither candidate managed to deal with Hunter Biden and his sticky laptop.

Daily Mail: ‘Get me any house in Maine!’ Out-of-state buyers from New York City, Boston and DC are flooding the Maine property market causing home values to surge 17% and supply to hit a ‘historic low’. CTRL-F ‘riot’; not found.

CNBC: ‘Hottest real estate market in the world’ may be Palm Beach, Florida, brokers say. CTRL-F ‘riot’; not found.

Housing Wire: Average 30-year mortgage rate for purchase loans falls to another all-time low.

City Journal: Liberty, in Sickness and in Health: Judicial skepticism is reining in pandemic emergency orders.

National Review: Twitter’s Un-American Censorship of the New York Post.

New York Post: Biden doesn’t get one question on Hunter Biden exposé at ABC News town hall.

City Journal: Wealth and Risk: Many factors contribute to racial disparities in household wealth accumulation, but one is mostly overlooked.