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Headlines Duke it out over Meaning of Honolulu Board of Realtors July 2008 Housing Stats

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

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Headlines Duke it out over Meaning of Honolulu Board of Realtors July 2008 Housing Stats

Dueling headlines over the exact same report from Honolulu Board of Realtors!

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Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? Newspapers Put Opposite Spins on Foreclosure Numbers

Saturday, July 12, 2008

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Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? Newspapers Put Opposite Spins on Foreclosure Numbers

We had dueling headlines yesterday morning in the Hawaii papers about June foreclosures, one was positive, and one was negative..

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A “Two Bagger” Real Estate article From CNN

Thursday, June 26, 2008

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A “Two Bagger” Real Estate article From CNN

Home sales increasing? Is this possible, well yes it is! But CNN doesn't want to be too optimistic, you kidding me?

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Alarming Real Estate Article in Honolulu Advertiser Doesn’t Apply to Hawaii

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

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Alarming Real Estate Article in Honolulu Advertiser Doesn’t Apply to Hawaii

The June 24, 2008 Honolulu Advertiser ran an article entitled “Home Prices Fall at Record Rate.” Pretty scarey huh? Since this article is published in a Hawaii newspaper, and the first line indicates that US home prices went down, it is natural that a reader would think this article is about Hawaii. It isn’t.

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More Gloom and Doom From The Mainland

Friday, June 6, 2008

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More Gloom and Doom From The Mainland

Let’s start Friday off with some good old doom and gloom from the Mainland. The media has discovered that as prices fall, the equity owners have becomes smaller. Since this sounds really scary it must be good to put into news articles.

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Foreclosures up: “Okay, on my word, everybody panic. Wait for it . . . wait for it . . . GO!”

Thursday, June 5, 2008

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Foreclosures up: “Okay, on my word, everybody panic. Wait for it . . . wait for it . . . GO!”

It's time for some good old media hysteria. My god, foreclosures up 218%! It's time to build a bomb shelter and store food. In fact, curl into a ball right now and play dead, just in case there are any bears in the area.

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Some Common Sense About the Gas ‘Panic”

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

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Some Common Sense About the Gas ‘Panic”

This weekend was fun to watch the media lose its mind over $4 gas. Read this article from the Star Bulletin. For months gas has been in the high $3 range, and that was no problem. But now, at $4, it is the end of the world as we know it. [...]

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