Someone told me the Fed is pumping nearly 50 billion/month to prop up HUD & Fannie Mae.

In a buyers market which is most of the country right now buyers will look for the best product in the bottom 50% of pricing of RECENT SOLDS.I thought this whole topic was pretty funny and I knew there would be strong opinions on both sides.Anyways off to list more properties.Have a 1.5 billion dollar fund company setting up for acquisitions starting October 5th I am working with.bye bye

Having been on both sides of billion-dollar M&A deals, my experience is that when a company like Google makes a major purchase, the decision on whether to use cash or stock (or a combination of the two) generally has very little to do with macro-economics and more to do with the financial position of the company, the specific incentives the company wants to provide to the company they are acquiring, and the goals of the investment.Having too much cash on-hand can be a major liability to a company; while there are a number of reasons for this, by far the biggest is that it sends a message to wall street and to shareholders that the company doesn't have a viable investment outlet for the cash, and therefore doesn't have a solid and cohesive growth plan.Microsoft epitomized this back in 2004 when they were sitting on $60B in cash and ended up issuing a huge one-time dividend ($3 per share @ 10B shares) to dispense of half of that cash.Long-story-short, don't read too much into the fact that a company with a lot of cash chooses to spend it on M&A, versus issuing stock (borrowing money is rarely an option for companies with a large cash position).

If you can buy a property (usually a condo) for 30-50k and have a line of people with a 600-620 credit score and a good job lined up to hand you 2000 dollars and pay 900/mth with a rent to own contract, wouldn't you do it as much as possible if you knew how to get them approved. there is a billion dollar business that will rise up in the next few years from someone doing this for 10,000's of homes they buy right from b of a and the others.

This year it amounts to 131 BILLION!

I think many such developing countries are due for LT growth similar to what America saw in its' developing days, but they also have concerns as simple as providing food,water,and health for a billion people.

Supposedly, a $5 billion dollar hedge fund is the investor that negotiates a deal with the lender's asset management dept.

CA has about 350 Billion in Alt A and Option ARM loans that will be recasting/resetting in the next 30 months or so.

. $27 billion a month.

So far, losses have not exceed that and there are no losses to FDIC to date.The 2.5 billion is not a loss.