Since this week is all about surges and escalation, here are a few treads from The Tank.

* [Redfin vs. Realtor.com’s Allan Dalton [Trulia]](http://www.truliablog.com/?p=92)
* [10 Good men [The St. Paul Real Estate Blog]](http://www.stpaulrealestateblog.com/st_paul_real_estate/2007/01/10_good_men.html)
* [Economists eye housing, Wall Street [CT Post]](http://www.connpost.com/ci_4991233)
* [Housing Data Yield a False Sense of Complacency [Bloomberg]](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aaAugiM40C_w&refer=columnist_baum)
* [Apple iPhone [Apple]](http://www.apple.com/iphone/)
* [Failed Condos Spur Rise in Vacant Apartments [WSJ]](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116794611566067447.html?mod=real_estate_wsj_hs)
* [Resetting the DOM to sell “stale fish” [SF Chron]](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/01/05/carollloyd.DTL)
* [UCLA Anderson Forecast Holds the Line: No Recession in National Forecast [UCLA]](http://uclaforecast.com/contents/archive/media_12_06_1.asp)
* [Want to improve your economic forecasting? Watch the Weather Channel [Northern Trust – pdf]](http://www.northerntrust.com/popups/popup.html?http://web-xp2a-pws.ntrs.com/content//media/attachment/data/econ_research/0701/document/us0107.pdf)
* [US housing market may slow world economy [BW]](http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8MIM0FG1.htm?campaign_id=alerts)