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San Francisco SF Real Estate Falls 44%

San Francisco homes fall 44% , SF

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Real Estate on 2009-01-22
- The median price declined to $330,000 from $587,500 in the
  nine-county region,
- Half of the resales were foreclosures,”
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- - The number of sales gained in six counties and fell in
    Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo. San Mateo and Marin had the
    lowest sales count for a December in MDA DataQuick’s records,
    which go back two decades
  - San Francisco’s sales count was the lowest for a December
    since 1990, with 366 houses and condos sold compared with 316 in
    December 199
  - The most active lenders to Bay Area homebuyers in December
    were Bank of America Corp., its Countrywide unit, and Wells
    Fargo & Co., MDA DataQuick said.
Most Successful U.S. Startups 2008: - BusinessWeek

on the MoneyTree Report from the National Venture Capital Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Startup Companies that are getting the best financing

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Startups financing vc on 2008-12-31
Stock Investors Lose Faith, Pull Out Record Amounts - WSJ.com

Stock market crashes, downturns, investors pulling out of the stock market, recession, depression, stock market crash crashes, low term dow jones stock market trends.

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recession depression stock market crash crashes on 2008-12-22 and saved by 3 people
GM, Ford, Chrysler Failure, Auto Failure crisis

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on 2008-12-15
- Now, auto production accounts for only about 3 percent of
  GDP, Stanley says.
- show 239,000 people work in the U.S. for
  GM, Chrysler and Ford
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- - 2.5
    million if GM failed and 3.5 million if all three
  - hat includes 1.4 million people in industries such as
    retailing that aren’t directly tied to manufacturin
  - dditional six outside
  - “But over a million in the first quarter of ‘09, I think,
    would be reasonable to expect.”
  - U.S. auto sales plunged 37 percent in November to a
    seasonally adjusted annual rate of 10.2 million
  - 00 dealers will close this year and 1,100 next year
  - them GM, Ford and Chrysler franchises
  - 13,000 dealers nationwide,
    employing more than 700,000 workers.
  - auto-
    parts makers
  - higher unemployment costs for states
  - $279 a week for benefits for 26 weeks
  - Bankruptcy could throw them into federal government
    programs
  - more than $150 billion
    because
  - on unemployment, more people
    needing health care
  - decline in
    tax revenue
  - A collapse would quickly spread to financial markets, said
    Eric Selle, an automotive-credit analyst at JPMorgan Chase &
    Co. in a research report last month.
  - The automakers’ bonds “already trade at 20 to 40 percent
    of par value, suggesting that many of the losses that would be
    associated with a default have probably already been
    recognized,” he said.
  - the economy is going to take a hit
US Budget Deficit and Debt

$10T debt and $1T deficit

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on 2008-12-15
- $10.7 trillion in November from $9.15 trillion a year
  earlier, the amount of interest paid in the last two months fell
  by $10 billion, according to the Treasury Department.
- Foreign central banks and other institutions are
  accumulating Treasuries at the fastest pace since 1988, boosting
  their holdings 12 percent since September, compared with a 7.7
  percent increase l
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- - st quarter, ac
  - two-year Treasury note tumbled to 0.76 percent last week from
    this year’s peak of 3.11 percent
  - on three-
    month bills turned negative on Dec. 9
  - two-year note yielded 0.80 percent
  - The drop in yields drove bond prices higher,
  - the world’s second largest economy ran its national debt
    to 1.5 times of gross domestic product.
  - U.S. The national debt in the U.S. is 72 percent of GDP.
  - Interest was $92.5 billion from August through November
    2007 on the $9.15 trillion in total debt outstanding, resulting
    in interest expense of 1.01 percent. In the same period a year
    later, interest was $87.5 billion on $10.66 trillion in total
    debt, dropping the expense to 0.8 percent.
  - 10-year Treasury yields to end 2009 at 3.65 percent,
    that’s still below the average of 6.91 percent paid on the
    securities since 1962.
  - Obama plans an economic stimulus package that may approach
    $1 trillion, in addition to a middle-class tax cut and universal
    health care, which may add $4 trillion or more to the national
    debt over 10 year
Economic Chartbook - Markets Data Center - WSJ.com

economic indicators, charts

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economic economy indicators data charts on 2008-12-14
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dollar currency exchange rates foreign currency

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Dollar Currency on 2008-12-15 and saved by 2 people
- As more loans are repaid, there is less need for dollars,
  forcing investors to value the currency on metrics such as
  relative interest rates, budget deficits and trade balances.
- “Treasuries
  have some bubble characteristics.”
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- - “The government and the Fed cannot continue to talk about
    trillions of dollars of financing and expansion of the Fed’s
    balance sheet without the dollar going south,” Gross said
  - $1
    trillion deficit, and that’s before the next stimulus package. If
    Treasury spends all of TARP, it could be $1.2 trillion to $1.3
    trillion.”
  - The $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program
  - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said may total $500 billion to $600
    billion.
  - The U.S. economy may contract 3.9 percent this quarter and 2
    percent in the first three months of 2009
  - The Citigroup strategists predicted on Nov. 6 that the euro,
    which was trading at $1.2715, would rally toward $1.33.
  - the dollar will weaken to $1.45 per
    euro by the end of 2009,

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Most Successful U.S. Startups 2008: - BusinessWeek

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GM, Ford, Chrysler Failure, Auto Failure crisis

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