Housing

• A Couple of Krugman Kicks, Brian Doherty, December 27, 2010
• "I Wish the Law Had Worked": A Dispatch from the Land of Unintended Consequences, Katherine Mangu-Ward, December 21, 2010
• When Mainstream Media Say "Flip This House," Don't., Tim Cavanaugh, December 15, 2010
• Reason Writers on TV: Matt Welch Talks Government Housing Intervention and Privatizing the Post Office on Freedom Watch With Judge Napolitano, November 17, 2010
• Foreclosuregate, We Hardly Knew Ye, Tim Cavanaugh, October 18, 2010
• Miron, Is That You?[*], Nick Gillespie, September 7, 2010
• No Exit Plan for Housing Quagmire, Tim Cavanaugh, September 6, 2010
• Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia and Anthony Randazzo on China's Real Estate Bubble, August 23, 2010
• Reason Morning Links: WikiLeaks, Wyclef, Walt Disney World, Jesse Walker, August 23, 2010
• Summer of Recovery Dog Days, Tim Cavanaugh, August 20, 2010
• Return of the Angry Renter, Tim Cavanaugh, August 18, 2010
• Liberaltarianism Twitches in the Morgue?, Matt Welch, August 18, 2010
• Barney Frank: We've Already Fixed Fannie and Freddie, Matt Welch, August 17, 2010
• It’s Never the Right Time to Reform Fannie and Freddie, Peter Suderman, August 16, 2010
• Finally, the Rich Are Getting Their Fair Share: Manhattan Condo Dwellers Line Up For FHA Subsidies, Tim Cavanaugh, August 13, 2010
• Can We Wake Up From the Fannie/Freddie Nightmare?, Matt Welch, August 12, 2010
• Case for Schiavo-ing Housing Life Support Catches On: Is Common Sense Returning to America?, Tim Cavanaugh, August 11, 2010
• Now How Much Would You Pay for Inflated Real Estate?, Tim Cavanaugh, August 9, 2010
• Because What Could Go Wrong With Government-Backed, Low-Interest, No-Money-Down Housing Loans?, Matt Welch, August 6, 2010
• Paul Volcker: “It's clear Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need to go.”, Damon W. Root, July 30, 2010
• Homeownership: Back To Old '99, Tim Cavanaugh, July 27, 2010
• Personal Finance For the Publicly Employed: Quit Paying Your Mortgage Because Your Overtime's Been Reduced, Tim Cavanaugh, July 25, 2010
• The Home Buyer Tax Credit Has Risen From the Grave!, Tim Cavanaugh, June 30, 2010
• Another Reason Why Owning Property Is a Mug's Game, Matt Welch, June 29, 2010
• Loan Mods Beaten Up By Loan Rockers, Tim Cavanaugh, June 25, 2010
• They'll Do Anything to Goose Housing Prices, Even Hand Out Tax Credits to 1,300 Prison Inmates, Matt Welch, June 23, 2010
• Bloomberg Businessweek, on "the mother of all bailouts", Matt Welch, June 14, 2010
• When Blue-State Zoning and Super-Cool Green Architecture Collide, Matt Welch, June 7, 2010
• "Fannie and Freddie need to be rethought entirely, if not eliminated outright.", Matt Welch, June 4, 2010
• I Paid $100,000, and All I Got Was This Lousy Degree, Jacob Sullum, June 2, 2010
• Neighborhood Busybody vs. the Handicapped, Brian Doherty, June 1, 2010
• Sympathy for the Deadbeat: 60 Minutes On Strategic Defaults, Tim Cavanaugh, May 11, 2010
• Fannie Mae: Now How Much Would You Pay?, Tim Cavanaugh, May 10, 2010
• Two Items From the Department of DON'T SPEND A DIME ON THIS!!!, Tim Cavanaugh, May 5, 2010
• Successful, Schmuccessful, As Long As It Costs Too Much, Tim Cavanaugh, April 27, 2010
• Shadow Inventory Gets More Shadowy, Tim Cavanaugh, April 26, 2010
• How Much Does Society Owe to People Who Don't Pay Their Debts?, Tim Cavanaugh, April 25, 2010
• The Upward Spiral of Housing Intervention, Matt Welch, April 22, 2010
• Shiller's Ode To Jacked-Up Prices, Tim Cavanaugh, April 21, 2010
• Dump the House, Take a Vacation, Just Treat Yourself..., Tim Cavanaugh, April 16, 2010
• Shadow Inventory Opens: Almost A Million Houses Headed to Market, Tim Cavanaugh, April 15, 2010
• Did Emperor Agustín I Prevent Texas Real Estate Bust?, Tim Cavanaugh, April 12, 2010
• Anti-Deadbeatism: Not Just For Heartless Libertarians Anymore!, Tim Cavanaugh, April 2, 2010
• Commercial Real Estate Hyperpocalypse: Where is Elizabeth Warren Getting Her Numbers?, Tim Cavanaugh, April 1, 2010
• Bernanke: Low Interest Rates Still Didn't Cause the Bubble, Tim Cavanaugh, March 18, 2010
• Green Shoots Or Just Grass B Green? Industrial Production, Homebuilder Confidence and Uncle Sam's Bad Debt, Tim Cavanaugh, March 15, 2010
• Reason Morning Links: Bombs, Foreclosures, and the Palmetto State, Jesse Walker, March 8, 2010
• Ein Volk, Ein Haus, Ein Shiller: We Need to Pay For Deadbeats to Preserve "National Identity", Tim Cavanaugh, March 7, 2010
• Because What Could Go Wrong With Fake-Identity Condo Purchases In 2008?, Tim Cavanaugh, March 6, 2010
• Reason Writers Around Town: Anthony Randazzo on How Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Bulldozed the American Dream, March 4, 2010
• We Had to Destroy the House in Order to Save Her, Jacob Sullum, March 3, 2010
• Buffett: Way Too Optimistic on Real Estate Recovery, Tim Cavanaugh, March 1, 2010
• Home Bulldozer: Pro or Con?, Tim Cavanaugh, February 20, 2010
• Colin Ward, RIP, Jesse Walker, February 17, 2010
• Tougher Standards For Bad Borrowers Who Don't Exist, Tim Cavanaugh, February 4, 2010
• Bailout Watchdog Explains Unaffordable Housing Policy, Tim Cavanaugh, February 3, 2010
• Deadbeating Without Shame, Tim Cavanaugh, January 19, 2010
• Two More Years of Pain, Tim Cavanaugh, January 12, 2010
• Prophecies of Nostradumbass! Who (Other Than Greenspan and Bernanke) Were the Biggest Clods of the Housing Bubble?, Tim Cavanaugh, January 12, 2010
• False-Bottom Blues, Tim Cavanaugh, January 11, 2010
• Who Burst Our Beautiful Bubble?, Tim Cavanaugh, January 9, 2010
• Don't Worry, America. You're Still Paying to Bail Out Second Mortgages., Tim Cavanaugh, January 8, 2010
• First Smart Move In a Long Time: Government Surrenders on Second Mortgages, Tim Cavanaugh, January 7, 2010
• OK, Maybe Poor People Are the Problem, Tim Cavanaugh, January 4, 2010
• Believe It Or Not, They Have Found Another Way To Blame Poor People, Tim Cavanaugh, January 1, 2010
• Fannie and Freddie Get Blank Check For Christmas (Was "This Year In Loan Mods"), Tim Cavanaugh, December 24, 2009
• We'll Have To Cancel Christmas. And the Children Have Been So Good This Year., Tim Cavanaugh, December 23, 2009
• What Price Deadbeat?, Tim Cavanaugh, December 21, 2009
• Bogus Unemployment/Default Connection Is Bogusly Bogus, Tim Cavanaugh, December 18, 2009
• Daniel Goldstein on Blurry Blight Lines, Jacob Sullum, December 10, 2009