Today's downmarket indicator: insane Craigslist postings. Sell SELL SELL!!!!!!
· $250 BYE BYE NYC REAL ESTATE MARKET [Craigslist]
Fanning the flames of recent Curbed debates about whether the hit to the financial industry will translate to a hit for the New York City real estate market, let's hand the microphone to Jim Cramer:
In the past half-dozen years, the major brokerages in New York added hundreds of thousands of jobs in three areas: mortgage-bond sales and trading, private equity, and prime brokerage (the management of hedge funds’ brokerage accounts)... I think that many of these firms have as many as 30 percent more people than they need right now in these departments, and all of them will be cashiered by the end of the year. The lists are being drawn up; the HR people notified. Not too close to the holidays, please! And for those who are left, sorry, no bonuses. The money was all eaten up by severances. Unlike other times on Wall Street, the jobs will dry up across the board, because so many firms have beefed up the same divisions. This time, get laid off at Bear, no walking across the street to Lehman. The departed will be cut off from billions in disposable income that fuel the New York economy.... Thousands of miles from where the walls began tumbling down, New York, the town where the architects of card houses live, will soon feel the full force of the storm. So much of our economy depends on these financial builders and their minions who buy and sell the products that the pain may actually end up being felt worse here than in the epicenters of the problem. You just don't know it or feel it yet.
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· Bloody and Bloodier [New York]