Diane Gerdes's (dianegerdes) Blog

It's halftime for the Arizona housing market.  The players are getting tired.  The referees keep changing the rules and we can't seem to get past the line of scrimmage to complete a first down. After the banking crisis crashed our home values, F.H.A. rushed in to become our star quarterback: dete...

Six weeks ago my daughter, April, visited an Arizona mall mid-morning to pick up a few things for a wedding that she would be attending the following weekend.    The parking lot was busy as she headed back to her SUV loaded with packages.  A Hispanic man was getting out of his van, a mother with ...

The American economy is a happy place. The stock market is above 10,000.  Corporate profits have improved.  Productivity in the work place has surged. The Commerce Department reported the gross domestic product, the measure of goods and products, is now matching average growth over the past 80 ye...

Why hasn't the first time home buyer tax bill been extended?  Because of the pork attached including an additional 14 weeks of unemployment in all states.   Will the unemployed now qualify to purchase a home?  That is so 2006.   It does mean that they our hogs in the legislature are holding out f...