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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Fed Chairman Bernanke's Home Value Plummets $270k

As your home equity disappears into thin air, comfort yourself with the knowledge that even the chairman of the Federal Reserve has the same problem. As Bloomberg reports:

The U.S. housing recession has arrived literally on the doorstep of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. Bernanke lives in Washington's Capitol Hill area in a four- bedroom, 2,600-square-foot house he bought new in May 2004 for $839,000.

"Even though he's the Fed chairman, he's going to get hit -- but I think lot of people will in Washington,'' said William Wheaton, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The value of Bernanke's home ``probably went up to $1.1 million and it's probably back down to $840,000,'' because prices in Washington just a couple years ago ``got out of control,'' Wheaton said.


Let's hope Bernanke put down 20 percent.

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