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Housing prices are heading to prediction markets, as real-time data firm Parcl partners with Polymarket to let traders wager on real estate trends. origin »
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What does Pulte’s FHFA crypto mortgage signal actually mean for American homebuyers, and could it rewrite lending norms for those who store wealth in Bitcoin and stablecoins? Mortgage, Pulte, and FHFA enter the crypto conversation In a recent announcement, Federal…
2025-6-25 17:52 | |
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Washington government officials have continued to view cryptocurrencies sceptically, and things might get grimmer for the fledgling asset class. The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs recently met in an open session to conduct a hearing on digital assets in response to the turbulence plaguing the markets. The hearing, titled “Crypto Crash: […]
2023-3-20 22:10 | |
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Fintech firms could soon face the kind of caps on lending that banks face when markets like housing overheat, the European Systemic Risk Board said.
2022-4-1 12:11 | |
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Sweden’s government is set to start assessing the practicability of moving the country to a digital currency. Per Bolund, Sweden’s minister for financial markets and housing, revealed this news on December 11, noting that the government had launched a review on the topic.
2020-12-15 17:12 | |
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From the U.S. presidential elections of 1896 to the dot-com bubble to housing markets in 2006, these historical moments help us make sense of a truly WTF year.
2020-9-5 22:00 | |
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Top banks around the world continue to face a deepening crisis from the COVID-19 pandemic. While the stock and housing markets have apparently rebounded, analysts believe that earnings will reveal a whole new set of problems.
2020-7-11 17:42 | |
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Real estate price reports from March in northern countries like Denmark and Sweden now show negative developments for the first time in over 10 years. If furloughed workers continue into unemployment, the effects on the housing markets will be even more significant, says Claudia Wörmann at SBAB Bank.
2020-4-20 13:05 | |
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Seattle’s housing market is up 50% over the past five years. Wealthy residents include Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. The latter has a $131 million mansion. Despite the boom, affordable housing is scarce and local communities are struggling.
2019-11-18 00:28 | |
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The U. S. housing market has been relying on low mortgage rates for growth. Freddie Mac reveals that mortgage rates have been ticking up. Higher mortgage rates could price more buyers out of the market.
2019-11-17 20:03 | |
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The student debt bubble shows no signs of slowing. The market for student loan asset-backed securities has historically been a safe one, but that could change if a progressive Democrat takes office.
2019-11-17 15:00 | |
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Nobel-Prize winning economist Robert Shiller’s CAPE index suggests a stock market crash is on the horizon. Apart from the stock market bubble, Shiller also sees bubbles in the U. S. housing market and bond markets as well.
2019-11-12 20:56 | |
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As markets approach the year’s end, the sentiment around the U. S. stock market is improving with important fundamental sectors like housing and manufacturing outperforming the expectations of analysts amidst a pending Federal Reserve rate cut.
2019-9-18 15:59 | |
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Nobel laureate Robert Shiller predicts that the US housing market is on the verge of crumbling. The American economist was speaking to Bloomberg Television when he said: “It would suggest declining home prices in the near future,” Shiller, who teaches at Yale University, told Bloomberg Television on Thursday.
2019-9-5 16:05 | |
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average is set to open 250 points on Thursday after China and the US scheduled new trade talks for October. But don't be fooled, the inflated stock market is a bubble, according to Michael Burry.
2019-9-5 13:09 | |
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U. S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) admitted that it would be difficult or impossible to ban bitcoin in the United States. The Senator offered a number of positive comments on bitcoin as he chaired the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs cryptocurrency hearing yesterday.
2019-7-31 15:04 | |
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Earlier today, the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a full committee hearing entitled “Examining Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Currencies and Blockchain” to discuss the viability of existing policies and regulations governing the U.
2019-7-30 22:27 | |
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The Dow and broader U. S. stock market advanced Tuesday after a pair of industrial blue-chip companies reported better than expected earnings. The rally lost some of its luster after the National Association of Realtors reported yet another month of disappointing housing sales.
2019-7-24 22:18 | |
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The Dow and broader U. S. stock market drifted lower Wednesday, as the combination of trade-war uncertainty and dismal housing data raised red flags about the health of the domestic economy. Dow Slides; S&P 500, Nasdaq Follow All of Wall Street’s major indexes reported losses Wednesday, mirroring a tepid pre-market for Dow futures.
2019-7-18 22:19 | |
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The US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing on Facebook’s Libra project this morning, with Facebook crypto chief David Marcus in the hot seat. After a lengthy introduction by Idaho Senator Mike Crapo in which he called Facebook’s aims “commendable,” the committee discussed the potential ramifications of Facebook banking services.
2019-7-17 20:20 | |
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St. Louis Federal Reserve economist William Emmons has found a data point that supports the case for a Fed rate cut amidst a possible recession down the line. According to the economist in a report: “Data on single-family home sales through May 2019 confirm that housing markets in all regions of the country are weakening.
2019-7-3 23:45 | |
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Market bubbles can exist in all kinds of markets and since the 2008 financial crisis, it has become household terminology. Famously, that crisis stemmed from irresponsible banks loans and a housing market bubble.
2019-2-28 06:18 | |
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Venezuelan President Nicolsic] will enter the streets to become a means for commodity exchange, purchase and convertible currency for the whole world,” Maduro said (via Sputnik News). Maduro has been pushing the Petro for some time.
2018-9-21 15:35 | |
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The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs meets today to conduct hearings on a set of bills ostensibly designed to increase access to capital. Several of these bills are part of a dangerous agenda to rollback securities markets regulations.
2018-6-27 11:26 | |
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Bubblemaps dismissed claims tying a Polymarket bet on Maduro’s removal to a WLFI cofounder, calling the on-chain logic misleading. Speculation around a high-profile Polymarket trade has escalated into claims of political and crypto insider ties, but Bubblemaps says the on-chain…
AI-assisted bot scans Polymarket wallets and bet sizes to flag possible insider-style trades on political markets, helping its creator net $75k on a Maduro arrest bet. A programmer reported generating $75,000 in profits by deploying an artificial intelligence-powered bot to…
Recent research shows Polymarket trades are double-counted on most public dashboards. The issue stems from redundant maker-taker events in smart contracts. According to the allegations, the actual volumes are roughly half of what dashboards report.
Prediction markets are becoming a mainstream phenomenon across politics, sports, and business. Polymarket's latest move exemplifies this trend.
Blockchain prediction platform Polymarket is set to disrupt the U. S. sports betting market, with stocks already reacting. Polymarket is planning its U. S. return, with its eyes on the sports betting market.
After Changpeng Zhao received a pardon from Trump, Polymarket traders have opened a market to bet on the odds of the former CEO coming back to Binance by the end of the year. On Oct. 24, the market titled “Will…