October 06, 2006

Help out the corrupt David Lereah - we can't say "crash" anymore (can we get a 'pretty please'?). So come up with a new adjective for housing crash

Help out the corrupt Mr. Lereah - it's gotta be tough hearing 'housing crash housing crash housing crash' all day before you go to bed, and you know you've lost your credibility, your job, the respect of your peers, your gains on your investment condo portfolio, and HP's love.

One HP'er proposed the following - a good start for sure

And I agree with the man. Why use the word "crash" to describe the current housing market. There are many less-objectionable alternatives, such as:

break down
calamity
cataclysm
catastrophe
collapse
crackup
crisis
disaster
failure
fiasco
insolvency
rupture
tragedy
wreck

30 comments:

Anonymous said...

Unslakeable

Anonymous said...

Housing Poo Explosion

Anonymous said...

i like clusterfuck or shitstorm.

Anonymous said...

"Tango Uniform" is my fav. Always been partial to the phonetic alphabet.

Anonymous said...

take a look at the employment chart.
There are fewer drywall nailers and granite countertop installers as well - about 50,000 less than in January when the housing market was still booming.


http://tinyurl.com/fwlqy

Anonymous said...

How about, Real estate market is F!@#$ed up beyond any recognition?

Anonymous said...

disequilibria

Anonymous said...

implosion
bursting metaphorical sphere

Anonymous said...

housing hernia results in equity rupture ending with condo caniption fit. Everybody Calypso!

Harry Belafonte

Anonymous said...

vertical drop

gravity pull

Anonymous said...

Housing Butt Blowout.

Anonymous said...

How about

Rectal Cranial Inversion.

Another words sorry Homeowners we had our heads up our ass.

Anonymous said...

What about Housing Panic?

(The name of this blog) :-)

Anonymous said...

debacle

Anonymous said...

F U B A R

Anonymous said...

How about:

McMeltdown

Bedrock (ie granite) Blowout

Stainless Selloff

Giant Suburbia Sucking Sound

"Would you like a house with that?"

Buy new car; get house for free

Anonymous said...

jewed out housing market sounds accurate and good to me.

Anonymous said...

call it banana if you want. you can't hide from the truth. when no one is buying for months or years, when you're in a verge of BK of foreclosure, crash, correction or banana, don't make a difference. choices of words will not in any way mitigate the situation.

Anonymous said...

abortion

Anonymous said...

Dont forget Ben Helicopter/printing press Bernanke's favorite

Substantial correction

Anonymous said...

We should honor David by coining a new phrase. It's a housing Lereah.

Anonymous said...

Dump - as in the housing market took a big dump.

Anonymous said...

Apocalypse

Anonymous said...

anal coitus interuptus

Anonymous said...

Bunghole Madness!

Anonymous said...

moderate to gentle restructuring!

AS IF

Anonymous said...

Nutron Bubble Bomb - NBB
Houses Stand
People gone

Anonymous said...

"Collapse" gets my vote.

Housing COLLAPSE.

It's even got a good visual and sounds like prices will go straight to the GROUND which is exactly what we need to clean up this mess.

Anonymous said...

Redmondjp-

Like the concept of "buy new car, get a house for free".

Also "Would you like a house with that?"

"McMeltdown" is good too.

Assume you're from Seattle area. Seattle Times finally fessing up to the "slowdown" locally.

Great news for those of us who live here.
Guess we ain't different after all. Who knew?

Anonymous said...

"20 year Negative 'Appreciation' Cycle"