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By this point, many states in the industrial Midwest, and housing-bubble states like Arizona, Nevada and Florida, were already shrinking.
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During the heady housing-bubble days, these pretty much climbed hand in hand.
As the U.S. Economy Stumbles, Can Fed Save Markets? Kelly Evans 2011
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To encourage consolidation in the sector, which has been left with more lending capacity than is needed as the economy slows following the housing-bubble collapse in 2008, the government will allow banks that merge an additional year for the cleanup.
Spain Prepares Cleanup of Banks Jonathan House 2012
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PMI became the second mortgage insurer since the housing-bubble burst to be subject to restrictions on payments, as fallout from the bursting of the housing bubble takes another turn for the worse.
Regulators Seize Main PMI Subsidiary Erik Holm 2011
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It shows how the aftereffects of the housing-bubble collapse across the country are finally penetrating the elite condo market in Manhattan.
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A common mistake of the housing-bubble years was the desire "to own something that goes up in value rather than to own something you can afford," he said.
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The losses at those companies most directly victimized by their own housing-bubble ineptitude -- such as Bear Stearns and Fannie Mae -- are easy to understand.
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Along with gas prices, I'd add food prices, declining real-dollar wages, and a few housing-bubble effects -- declining house values, mortgage payments adjusting upward, and the explosion of foreclosures.
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While a housing-bubble based recession was obviously coming, the credit freeze/panic was way outside the planning of a typical non-financial company could anticipate, much less protect against.
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At 1,300 feet of housing-bubble hubris, it is the second tallest building in north America surpassed only by the Sears Tower, which rises a few blocks to the south.
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