Weird commute home yesterday. The bus -- which holds probably 50 people -- was nearly empty except for me and a few others. It was like I was in a twilight zone or a bad after-school special.Asian st

Stocks died another little death, slipping for a fourth successive session on the day the munchkin coroner turned 94. Equities have started September with tears after being on a tear in August, thoug

Dear Professor Zucchi,I know this is probably a redundant question, but when do you think reality will realign itself and the Proshares Ultrashort Real Estate (SRS) show some upward spunk?I read your

In response to my repost of a Wall Street Journal article about an aborted move by the Peacock family to sell a 10,000-square-foot home (complete with an exotic game room that featured a hyena a

After nearly 3 years of bleeding cash, US homebuilders are on shaky ground. The market for new homes is being decimated by rampant overbuilding during the boom, and by the flood of bank-owned propert

Dear Professor Zucchi,So far as I can tell, there's a problem with buying residential real estate: No one is happy about the prospect of paying $5,000 a month for 10 years (for a $600,000 home)

That was a sweet -- and, might I add, long overdue -- rally. Let’s hope for more of the same today. Asia had a nice run last night, so my fingers are crossed. In other news, it looks like

The self-esteem movement has come to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), once the world’s most prestigious market. Some major companies are trading at less than a dollar -- dreaded penny-stock

We could use a couple more days like yesterday, that’s for sure. Asian stocks headed north overnight. The Hang Seng was up just over 2% while the Nikkei was up under 1%. Europe, however, was

For as bad as things are in the housing market, it’s remarkable that none of the country’s big homebuilders have gone bust. The industry’s resilience is a testament to how much mone