Gauging the Housing Blues from Wall Street Journal Headlines

I get the Wall Street Journal and I enjoy reading it. It's a great newspaper. But lately I've been so busy, I haven't been reading it much. Al I have tiem for is to skim the headlines. Lately there have been more and more headlines about the Housing market and Mortgage Crisis. After reading these headlines daily for the last few months I feel like I know all about the Housing situation, or atl least where it's going. So I thought I'd share a few Wall Street Journal Headlines to make the point. Here are some recent ones and a few from earlier this spring. Skim them and you'll be up-to-date on all the latest housing and mortgage doom and gloom.

Data On Housing Suggest Bottom Hasn't Been Hit
Page A2
March 21, 2007

Finding a Mortgage in Tougher Times: Turmoil in Subprime Market Hits Home as Terms Tighten For Some Borrowers; Better Deals for the Prime Segment
Personal Journal
March 22, 2007

Regulators Scrutinized in Mortgage Meltdown: States Federal Agencies Clashed on Subprimes As Market Balloned
Front Page
March 22, 2007

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae pledged to buy tens of billions of dollars of new subprime mortgage loans over the mext few years to help prop up the market.
(What's News - Business and Finance)
Front Page
April 19, 2007

Debt On Sale: Banks Grease The Leveraged-Loan Machine
Money and Investing
October 10, 2007

Big Banks Push $100 Billion Plan To Avert Crunch
Front Page
October 13, 2007

Citigroup Model Is Left Shaken By Credit Crunch
Front Page
October 16, 2007

Burned by Real Estate, Some Just Walk Away
Personal Journal
October 18, 2007

Credit-Market Fears Flare Despite Upbeat Earnings
Money and Investing
October 18, 2007

Interest Rates Defy Fed's Recent Cuts: Credit-Market Crunch Keeps Yields Relatively High on Savings, While Home-Equity and Some Other Loans Remain Pricey
Personal Journal
November 6, 2007

Morgan Stanley May Take Hit From Subprime
Money and Investing
November 7, 2007

Dump this House: Unloading your Property in a Slow Market
Personal Journal
November 7, 2007

Get Set for Wave of Debt Downgrages: With Investors Frazzeled, Real Estate Softening, Three Rating Firms Have Their Markers Out
Money and Investing
November 9, 2007

Dividend-Cut Anxiety Rises as Banks Wobble
Money and Investing
November 10, 2007

Credit Pressure Filters Down To Muni Market: Bond Insurers' Exposure To Troubled Mortgages Ripples Through System
Money and Investing
November 16, 2007

If Homne History Repeats, Then Look Out
Money and Investing
November 20, 2007

Have Companies Feasted on Debt? Ask Smithfield
Money and Investing
November 21, 2007

Mortgage Mess Curtails Wagoner's Honeymoon
Marketplace
November 21, 2007

Mortgage Giant Fuels Worries With Steep Loss: Setback at Freddie Mac Is Worse Than Expected; Its Shares Plummet 29%
Front Page
November 21, 2007

Rising Rates to Worsen Subprime Mess
Front Page
November 24, 2007
For Banks, the Hurt Just Goes On: Options for Financing Drying Up in Europe; Short-Term Rates Jump
Money and Investing
November 26, 2007

Citigroup Feels Heat To Modify Mortgages: Nonprofit Groups Press For Subprime Relief; Deciding Who Gets Help
Front Page
November 26, 2007

Stocks Sink Into Correction As Credit Fears Take Toll
Front Page
November 27, 2007

HSBC Becomes First Bank to Bail Out Troubled SIVs
Money and Investing
November 27, 2007

Home prices dropped 4.5% in the third quarter from a year earlier, while consumer confidence waned in November (What's News - Business and Finance)
Front Page
November 28, 2007

Subprime Sword Claims Morgan Stanley's Cruz: Heir Apparent Joins List of Wall Street Casualties; Was Polarizing Style a Factor in Her Ouster?
Money and Investing
November 30, 2007

U.S., Banks Near A Plan to Freeze Subprime Rates
Front Page
November 30, 2007

Borrowers Tap Mortgages Of Last Resort
Personal Journal
December 5, 2007

How the Credit Crunch Turned Local
Money and Investing
December 6, 2007

Is Tech Bust A Blueprint For Builders
Money and Investing
December 6, 2007

How Subprime Loan Mess Hit Poor Immigrant Groups
Front Page
December 6, 2007

Battle Lines Form Over Mortgage Plan
Front Page
December 7, 2007

How Hot Land Sales Offset A Housing Glut in Phoenix
Marketplace
December 7, 2007

Countrywide isn't out of the woods yet. Since a credit crunch……
Money and Investing
December 7, 2007

U.S. Mortgage Crisis Rivals S&L Meltdown
Front Page
December 10, 2007

Did Authorities Miss a Chance To Ease Crunch? Sec, Spitzer Probed Bear CDO Pricing in '05, Before Backing Away
Money and Investing
December 10, 2007

UBS's Subprime Hit Deepens Credit Worries: Bank Gets $11.5 Billion From Singapore, Others; 'Unknowable' Bottom
Front Page
December 11, 2007

Fed Cuts Rates, Seeks New Ways To Thaw Credit
Front Page
December 12, 2007

How Accurate Is Subprime Forecaster? Critis Say Index Tracks A Too-Narrow Portion To Sway Write-Downs
Money and Investing
December 12, 2007

Why Borrowers May Not Benefit From Rate Cut
Personal Journal
December 12, 2007

Some Lending Pressures Ease, a Bit
Money and Investing
December 13, 2007

Central Banks Launch Effort to Free Up Credit: Fed Extends $40 Billion In Bid to Revive Lending; Europe, Canada Weigh In
Front Page
December 13, 2007

How Goldman Won Big On Mortgage Meltdown: A Team's Bearish Bets Netted Firm Billions; A Nudge From the CFO
Front Page
December 14, 2007