In Depth Analysis: CalculatedRisk Newsletter on Real Estate (Ad Free) Read it here.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Daily Show, A Lonely Condo Owner and the Market

by Calculated Risk on 7/30/2009 04:00:00 PM

Keeping with the recent theme of an end of market day mishmash ... first from the Daily Show (link here if embedded video loads slow)



And from the News-press.com: Downtown Fort Myers condo has 32 stories, and one lonely tale
Victor Vangelakos lives in a luxury condominium tower on the Caloosahatchee River. He never has to worry about the neighbors making too much noise.

There are no neighbors.
S&P 500 Click on graph for larger image in new window.

The first graph shows the S&P 500 since 1990.

The dashed line is the closing price today.

The S&P 500 is up 45.8% from the bottom (310 points), and still off 37% from the peak (578 points below the max).

The S&P 500 first hit this level in Feb 1998; over 11 years ago.

Stock Market Crashes The second graph is from Doug Short of dshort.com (financial planner): "Four Bad Bears".

Note that the Great Depression crash is based on the DOW; the three others are for the S&P 500.