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You know the old saying–time heals everything–but does that apply to the housing market too? It’s been five years since the housing bubble burst, sending the U.S. economy on a downward spiral. Local economies–including the one in Athens–were not immune.

Jeff Koon is a broker at Carriage House Realty, and he says profit driven home buyers were partly to blame for the downturn.

IN: “It seemed like everyone was buying up..

OUT:…the fundamentals behind it.

Trulia.com reports the average listing price in Athens at just over two hundred thousand dollars–a half percent increase from this time last year.

Even though things are looking better, the economy is by no means ideal. But surprisingly, Tax Comissioner Mitch Snyder says revenues haven’t suffered here in Athens.

IN: “We do feel like…

OUT:…afford to pay their taxes.

And that isn’t the only positive sign for realtors and mortage lenders. Many would agree that the highly anticipated Catipillar Plant Project will increase supply and demand for both jobs and new homes.

IN: “A couple of years ago after the housing market…

OUT:…this scene may not be the case much longer.”

The recent outlook is a refreshing cause for optimisim. An optimism that may be needed for the housing industry to bounce back.

An associate professor of the Terry College of Business adds that the housing market is cyclical, and most of the recent positive effects won’t show up in official numbers for at least a few months.

Duration : 0:1:33

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While the “national debt” has been the concern du jour of many economists, commentators and politicians, little attention is ever paid to the historical significance of debt.

For thousands of years, the struggle between rich and poor has largely taken the form of conflicts between creditors and debtors—of arguments about the rights and wrongs of interest payments, debt peonage, amnesty, repossession, restitution, the sequestering of sheep, the seizing of vineyards, and the selling of debtors’ children into slavery. By the same token, for the past five thousand years, popular insurrections have begun the same way: with the ritual destruction of debt records—tablets, papyri, ledgers; whatever form they might have taken in any particular time and place.

Enter anthropologist David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years (July, ISBN 978-1-933633-86-2), which uses these struggles to show that the history of debt is also a history of morality and culture.

In the throes of the recent economic crisis, with the very defining institutions of capitalism crumbling, surveys showed that an overwhelming majority of Americans felt that the country’s banks should not be rescued—whatever the economic consequences—but that ordinary citizens stuck with bad mortgages should be bailed out. The notion of morality as a matter of paying one’s debts runs deeper in the United States than in almost any other country.

Beginning with a sharp critique of economics (which since Adam Smith has erroneously argued that all human economies evolved out of barter), Graeber carefully shows that everything from the ancient work of law and religion to human notions like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption,” are deeply influenced by ancients debates about credit and debt.

It is no accident that debt continues to fuel political debate, from the crippling debt crises that have gripped Greece and Ireland, to our own debate over whether to raise the debt ceiling. Debt, an incredibly captivating narrative spanning 5,000 years, puts these crises into their full context and illuminates one of the thorniest subjects in all of history.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Graeber teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value, Lost People, and Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire.

This talk was hosted by Boris Debic on behalf of the Authors@Google program.

Duration : 1:21:10

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You know the old saying–time heals everything–but does that apply to the housing market too? It’s been five years since the housing bubble burst, sending the U.S. economy on a downward spiral. Local economies–including the one in Athens–were not immune.

Jeff Koon is a broker at Carriage House Realty, and he says profit driven home buyers were partly to blame for the downturn.

IN: “It seemed like everyone was buying up..

OUT:…the fundamentals behind it.

Trulia.com reports the average listing price in Athens at just over two hundred thousand dollars–a half percent increase from this time last year.

Even though things are looking better, the economy is by no means ideal. But surprisingly, Tax Comissioner Mitch Snyder says revenues haven’t suffered here in Athens.

IN: “We do feel like…

OUT:…afford to pay their taxes.

And that isn’t the only positive sign for realtors and mortage lenders. Many would agree that the highly anticipated Catipillar Plant Project will increase supply and demand for both jobs and new homes.

IN: “A couple of years ago after the housing market…

OUT:…this scene may not be the case much longer.”

The recent outlook is a refreshing cause for optimisim. An optimism that may be needed for the housing industry to bounce back.

An associate professor of the Terry College of Business adds that the housing market is cyclical, and most of the recent positive effects won’t show up in official numbers for at least a few months.

Duration : 0:1:33

Technorati Tags: Athens, housing, market, PKG

Duration : 0:1:6

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Opah! Finally a Greek Bailout

After months of skepticism by the euro nations and protests in Athens, the European finance ministers approved a 130 billion euro, $170 billion, bailout for Greece. In addition to the new loans, Greece has asked private bondholders to forgive $142 billion in debt and the ECB and other European banks will forego charging interest on loans. According to the Associated Press, Greece is required to pass a law that states that payment of the debt will supersede payment for government services. The hope is that the bailout will bring Greece’s debt down to 120.5 percent of GDP by 2020. Today the debt is at 160 percent of GDP.

Stocks mixed despite bailout

The Wall Street Journal reports that European stocks are down despite the news of the Greek bailout due primarily to a story posted earlier by the Financial Times, but since withdrawn, that Greece may need a third bailout because the force austerity could cause debt levels to rise. Asian markets were mostly up. US markets were closed on Monday but the Dow finished at 12,949 on Friday. Dow futures are up.

Lenders paying Borrowers to complete short sales

Lenders are allowing more short sales for those homes about to go into foreclosure and, according to USA Today, some lenders are even paying the borrowers cash to complete the sale. A short sale is when lenders allow borrowers to sell homes for less than the unpaid mortgage. Incentive offers from major banks range from $3,000 to $30,000. The reason is that it is less costly for banks to encourage the short sale than go through the lengthy foreclosure process. According to CoreLogic, short sales accounted for more than 9 percent of single family home sales in November, an increase of 32 percent from a year ago.

Increase in Chinese wages may spur inflation in US

The US imported $399 billion in Chinese goods last year, according to the Commerce Department and reported by the Wall Street Journal. This was quadruple the $100 billion imported in 2000 and ten times the $39 billion imported in 1994. Over the past 15 years, the core consumer price index, which excludes food and energy, has risen at 2.1 percent, compared to the 4 percent experienced in the 1970s and 1980s. The import prices have increased 3.9 percent recently due to higher wages in China and an appreciating yuan, the currency in China. While rising prices in China will not directly increase prices in the US, it will not offer the ability to pull prices down. Therefore, ultimately prices for goods, and the associated inflation, will begin rise. While some companies may shift production out of China to avoid rising costs, the 1.3 billion people in China cannot be found in other countries, which have much smaller populations.

E-Commerce shoppers generally satisfied

According to an index founded by the University of Michigan, customer satisfaction with online websites increased 1percent in the past year to an index score of 80.1. USA Today reports that total e-commerce sales rose 16 percent to $194.3 billion in 2011, according to US Census Bureau data. While Amazon was the top online retailer, its overall score dipped slightly. Online travel agencies and online brokers both experienced a decrease in overall scores compared to prior years

Duration : 0:3:25

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