It’s been quite a while since I blogged about house prices, or anything to do with the economy at all really. Mostly because not much seems to be happening. Government prints some money, nothing much moves anywhere, least of all house prices which hae remained pretty much stable the alst few months. An odd rise here, [...]

This post is taken from a Forum I read, the original thread and associated replies can be found here: http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=53593&st=0 August, 2007 Well, it’s several years since I said “It ain’t a housing bubble it’s a credit bubble!” in these hallowed pages and finally, and by Eris it’s been a long wait, that credit bubble [...]

A quick update on my trades

I’ve started trading shares now. I’ve been following Robbie Burn’s excelent blog and commentary over at the Naked Trader, bought his book and have begun to take baby steps into the world of shares. I seem to be doing ok so far. I’m not sure if it is due to luck or judgement however. I [...]

Bradford & Bingley, the nationalised mortgage lender, has laid bare the dire state of its loan book and said that a rising wave of fraud dragged it to a £160 million loss for the first half of the year. The figures came the Council of Mortgage Lenders warned that the economy remained fragile and predicted [...]