by Joe McAuliffe | Feb 22, 2012 | Cup O' Joe, Economic Considerations
Economic Considerations – How Gas Prices Could Effect Real Estate Here we go again with rising gas prices which may be one of the biggest challenges that the US economy will face in 2012. Due to continuing turmoil in the Middle East, especially with sanctions...
by Joe McAuliffe | Oct 26, 2011 | Cup O' Joe, Economic Considerations, Seller Considerations
After several years of price declines in real estate caused by The Housing Bubble and Great Economic Recession, there are still many sellers that believe that prices will rebound. Although this could happen, there are compelling reasons that point to this being...
by Joe McAuliffe | Aug 10, 2011 | Cup O' Joe, Economic Considerations
In a press conference over three weeks ago on July 14th, of this year, Standard and Poor’s, one of the three major credit rating agencies, warned that if the U.S. wanted to keep its “AAA” credit rating, Congress and the Administration would have to agree to trim at...
by Joe McAuliffe | Aug 9, 2011 | Cup O' Joe, Economic Considerations
For over two years now investors have taken advantage of a down cycle by migrating to the Stock Market. Timing has been ideal with the Dow increasing by 87% from a March, 2007 low of near 6,500 to a high in April of around 12,000 by April of 2009. Now, with the...
by Joe McAuliffe | Aug 8, 2011 | Cup O' Joe, Economic Considerations
The recent agreement reached by both parties in Congress, and the Administration, wasn’t sufficient for U.S. credit to avoid being downgraded by S&P’s credit rating agency from the triple-A rating it had for 70 years to double-A plus. The two other credit rating...
by Joe McAuliffe | Jul 26, 2011 | Cup O' Joe, Economic Considerations
Well, here we are close to one of the riskiest financial days in U.S. history, and it’s still business as usual for the Congress and the President. With only 7 days left before the U.S. Government won’t be able to officially pay all of its bills, our...
