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Bits Bucket for July 29, 2014
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Post off-topic ideas, links, and Craigslist finds here.
1 hour ago
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New York Fed Worried About Gambling in Casablanca, Um, Ethics Problem at
Big Banks
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This story would be funny if it weren't so pathetic. Yesterday, the
Financial Times reported that the New York Fed woke up out of its usual
slumber and rea...
1 hour ago
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NYPD Cops Put Pregnant Woman in a Choke Hold Over Grilling In Front of Her
House
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[image: bill de blasio's new york]I am running out of ways to introduce
this kind of story. Were you a cop or a police apologist who thought Eric
Garner...
6 hours ago
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STTG Market Recap July 28, 2014
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Stocks sold off moderately Monday morning but dip buyers came in yet again
- a pattern we have now seen for 2 months - and indexes close near
unchanged. Th...
8 hours ago
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STTG Market Recap July 28, 2014
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Stocks sold off moderately Monday morning but dip buyers came in yet again
- a pattern we have now seen for 2 months - and indexes close near
unchanged. Th...
8 hours ago
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Tuesday: Case-Shiller
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A glass half empty view from Mark Hanson: Lack of
Defaults/Foreclosures/Short Sales; A Serious Housing & Spending Headwind
Most think of the effects of for...
8 hours ago
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Calling All Munitions and Fighter Plane Experts: Is German Pilot Claim
"Air-to-Air Attack" Brought Down MH17 Credible?
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Peter Haisenko, a German aviation expert made a claim yesterday that air-to-air
fire brought down MH17.
The above link is to a translated page.
As a lay p...
9 hours ago
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Noted for Your Evening Procrastination for July 28, 2014
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**Over at [Equitable Growth](http://EquitableGrowth.org)--[The Equitablog](http://equitablegrowth.org/blog)** * Afternoon Must-Read: Danny Vinik: Richard Fis...
10 hours ago
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Write-Offs: 07.28.14
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$$$ Virgin America Files for Proposed U.S. Initial Share Sale [Bloomberg]
$$$ Goldman Sachs Denies Ex-Employee Claims of Sex Bias [Bloomberg] $$$
Stock M...
10 hours ago
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Calatrava Watch: On His Birthday, 10 Winged White Things by Santiago Calatrava
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Though Santiago Calatrava is certainly no stranger to less-than-favorable feedback that occasionally escalates into downright scorching criticism and even le...
10 hours ago
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10 Monday PM Reads
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My afternoon train reads: • Wall Street strategists have been left
flat-footed by this year’s gain in the S&P 500 (WSJ) • How Much Can
Corporate Sponsors S...
12 hours ago
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Width, not depth
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How useful are alternative indicators of poverty and development?
13 hours ago
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July 28th Blogger Sentiment Poll
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Blogger Sentiment Poll Participants: 24/7 Wall St (-) The Aleph Blog (-)
Biiwii (-) BullBear Trading Carl Futia (+) Dash of Insight Dividend Growth
Investo...
18 hours ago
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Open House Review: 14 Delamesa West
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Today I saw a two level, 4 bedrooms and 2 ½ bathroom home. It is nicely
located on a quiet cul-de-sac street with Santiago Hills Elementary
School’s gre...
21 hours ago
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Too many numbers
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Numbers is a short film by Robert Hloz where some people see numbers appear
above others' heads. What the numbers …
1 day ago
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Swallow Hard, Start Over
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It is a busy summer. Economic Principals has many pots upon the stove and
relatively little time to read the papers. That seems just as well most
days. Th...
1 day ago
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China’s financial risk
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Three years ago I called attention to the NYU Stern Volatility Laboratory.
Since then it’s grown into an even more amazing resource, giving anyone
access t...
1 day ago
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CEO pay versus performance
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Nobody Knows What Makes a Good CEO
3 days ago
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Envy
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GDP (in some form such as per capita, real per capita, real per capita change, etc.) is the widely used proxy for an area's well-offness. But standard textbo...
4 days ago
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The Use of History in Management Research and Education
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| Peter Klein | Another book recommendation, also courtesy of EH.Net. The
book is Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods (Oxford University
Press,...
5 days ago
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Uncertainty vs risk: S&P500 volatility since 1929
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This from Goldman Sachs' *Top of Mind *Global Macro Research report of 25
Jun, 2014:
Although the detail within the GS report is balanced this shorter and...
3 weeks ago
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Weighing the Week Ahead: More Clarity from the Market Message?
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Do you have an opinion about stocks or bonds or foreign exchange? If so, it is easy to find a market message that will support (or contradict) your viewpoint...
1 month ago
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Farewell
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In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner
2 months ago
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December 2013 Home Sales Drop Sharply
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Housing sales dropped 7 percent nationwide as demand for homes declined
significantly. That is the bad news, but there is good news. Housing prices
did ris...
6 months ago
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A Brief Timeout...
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The Capital Spectator will be migrating to a new blogging platform (Wordpress) over the next day or so, which means that all the usual caveats are lurking wi...
6 months ago
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Moving
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Dear readers, We have been working behind the scenes to migrate growthology to a new platform and join forces with Policy Forum on the Foundation's entrepren...
10 months ago
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The Glamour of Jihadi Terrorism
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No sooner had Rolling Stone put Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev on its cover, looking doe-eyed and rock-star disheveled, than
critics den...
11 months ago
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Welcome to Housing Bubble 2.0 - The Great Reflation is Here
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*We predicted it years ago. Inflation, then deflation, then inflation.
And we've just made the turn.*
*If you haven't already, GET OUT OF CASH and get...
1 year ago
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Update and server move
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HousingDoom is in the process of being moved to a new server and updated.
During this time, there may be some periodic issues. Warnings about
certificate...
1 year ago
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Our 500,000th Twitter Follower
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Yesterday we passed 500,000 in Twitter followers. Thank you! The person who
put us over the top was *Dan Kreitz* (@dankreitz). We'll send some Freakonomic...
1 year ago
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Cautious Moves on Foreclosures Haunting Obama
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Cautious Moves on Foreclosures Haunting Obama By Binyamin Appelbaum, The
New York Times, August 19, 2012 WASHINGTON — After inheriting the worst
economic d...
1 year ago
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Turning the Games into Gold
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Everyone will have fun and games except the British taxpayer
2 years ago
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Mises Daily: Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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“Will the Latest Plan ‘Fix’ the Eurozone?” by Frank Shostak Deleveraging is
necessary to clean up the system and lay the foundations for solid economic
exp...
2 years ago
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New real estate app from O.C. Register
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People in the market for local real estate can get some help in their
search for housing with a new free iPhone app for real estate listings from
The Orang...
2 years ago
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The Altos Research Real-Time Housing Market Update for September 2011
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Altos Research has published their September 2011 housing report. Quote: "Since a peak in early July, we've seen week over week cooling of the housing mar...
2 years ago
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Weekend Funnies - 4 Sept 11
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Click any image to enlarge - enjoy!
2 years ago
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UW Settles Public Records Act Case Over Baby Einstein Study
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The Seattle Times reports that the UW settled a Public Records Act case
seeking access to the UW data used to call into question the effectiveness
of the B...
3 years ago
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Real Estate Investors Invest In Profitable Oil Real Estate Niche
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Domestic Development Company announces a compelling real estate investment
product that allows real estate investors to invest in oil, while yielding
the ...
3 years ago
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Herding, Risk Appetite & Complacency Somewhat "Elevated".......
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Just in time after the fastest 100 percent run of the S&P 500 ever....From
a risk/reward standpoint this should at least raise some
eyebrows......Especiall...
3 years ago
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The revolutionary poor
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*Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. *
Aristotle
3 years ago
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On the Importance of Title Insurance
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As part of the nationwide shock and concern over failures in the
foreclosure process, last weekend's New York Times contained an Article on
the imporantanc...
3 years ago
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The Future of Education
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Gary North has written a very fascinating article about the future of
education. You can read it here. The Khan Academy referred to is brilliant!
These con...
3 years ago
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South OC recent sales report
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South OC properties are changing hands every day. Here are some samples of
houses that have closed in the past week:
27916 Muirfield #183, Mission Viejo 92...
4 years ago
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Snow Storm Has Mid-Atlantic Residents Scrambling For Necessities
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“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” -Benjamin Franklin
(American statesman, scientists, philosopher, printer, writer, and
inventor. 1706-17...
4 years ago
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