numbers: Foreclosures are Up! Foreclosures are Down!
- 05/02/12 12:54 AM
FORECLOSURES are up! Foreclosures are down! Oh my. Numbers are fickle critters. First they will tell you one thing, then they say something different. Take foreclosures for example. This week Reuters reported 69,000 completed foreclosures in March, 2012. Good or bad news? That depends on what you compare it to. It is bad news because March's numbers are more than the 66,000 in the previous month of February. So, foreclosures are up! But those March foreclosures in 2012 were less than last March when 85,000 foreclosures were completed. It is good news because year to year, there were fewer foreclosures during (4 comments)