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Links 12/5/13
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37 minutes ago
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Online habitats
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[image: Ekisto]
Ekisto, by visual artist Alex Dragulescu, is an experiment in visualizing
online communities that provides an interesting city effect. So …
1 hour ago
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Bits Bucket for December 5, 2013
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Post off-topic ideas, links, and Craigslist finds here.
1 hour ago
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Auto Lending Standards Plunge: New Car Loans Average 110% LTV; Used Car
Loans 133% LTV with 55% Subprime! Repossessions Up Sharply
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U.S. car sales are up. It's easy to explain why: car buyers borrow more as
standards loosen
The average loan on a new car climbed to $26,719 in the third q...
1 hour ago
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Thursday: Unemployment Claims, Q3 GDP
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On the MBA Purchase Index: This morning I mentioned a WSJ article Smaller
Mortgage Lenders Lead Field. This suggests that the MBA Purchase Index
might be u...
8 hours ago
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Noted for Your Evening Procrastination for December 4, 2013
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**Over at the [WCEG](http://equitablegrowth.org/) [Equitablog](http://equitablegrowth.org/blog):** * “Microfoundations”: I Do Not Think That Word Means What ...
8 hours ago
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Write-Offs: 12.04.13
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$$$ Budget Negotiators Seeking to Avoid Shutdown Near Deal [Bloomberg] $$$
Icahn Wants Vote on Apple Buyback [WSJ] $$$ Madoff Cut Dead Client’s Payout
Wi...
10 hours ago
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Retail Therapy: Furniture Stores Behaving Badly: Five PR (Mega) Nightmares
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Illustration by sewluang/Shutterstock Ikea's main objective is to trick the average homeowner into believing they can successfully construct furniture withou...
11 hours ago
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Is QE deflationary?
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A few thoughts
11 hours ago
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10 Wednesday PM Reads
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Here are my home from EU zone afternoon reads • Companies Boost U.S.
Payrolls by Most in a Year (Bloomberg) • Americans are bingeing less on
houses and mor...
12 hours ago
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StockTradingToGo v1.0 Launches TODAY
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Ever since the most recent STTG quarterly reader survey I have been driven
with extreme passion and enthusiasm to build something special. The goal is
simp...
12 hours ago
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StockTradingToGo v1.0 Launches TODAY
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Ever since the most recent STTG quarterly reader survey I have been driven
with extreme passion and enthusiasm to build something special. The goal is
simp...
12 hours ago
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Trade Financing Use of China's Yuan
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From Reuters:
China's yuan currency overtook the euro in October, becoming the second-most used currency in trade finance, global transaction services organ...
16 hours ago
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ADP: Job Growth "Appears To Be Picking Up"
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The US economy added a net 215,000 private-sector jobs last month, according to this morning’s ADP Employment Report—the biggest monthly gain in a year. The ...
20 hours ago
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Irvine Housing Overview: October 2013
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According to Altos Research, the Market Action Index (MAI) for Irvine’s
single-family housing market is 36.88. That is a slight uptake from the
35.02 MAI...
22 hours ago
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ISNIE 2014
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| Peter Klein | The ISNIE 2014 Call for Papers is now available. The
conference is at Duke University, 19-21 June 2014, home of President-Elect
and Program...
1 day ago
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Five Years Later
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Lost decades, secular stagnation — gloomy growth prospects are in the
news. To understand the outlook, better first be clear about the recent
past. The na...
1 day ago
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How to really help
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Here is Prof Arindrajit Dube's summary of research that points to moderate to negligible unemployment impacts of a minimum wage law. Here is Prof. Don Boudr...
2 days ago
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December 2nd Blogger Sentiment Poll
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Blogger Sentiment Poll Participants: 24/7 Wall St (-) The Aleph Blog (-)
Biiwii (N) BullBear Trading (+) Carl Futia (+) Dash of Insight (+) Dividend
Growth...
2 days ago
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We will resume on December 8-a little longer sabbatical.
3 days ago
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A Deeper Look at Those Skeptical Charts on Forward Earnings Estimates
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How useful are the forward earnings estimates of the sell-side analysts? There is a widely-circulated chart that reinforces the popular viewpoint that analys...
5 days ago
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MAPPING THE NATION
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LINKING LOCAL TO GLOBAL
1 week 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...
2 months ago
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Florida Attempts to Seize Waterfront Property
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The State of Florida is filing suit against a property owner in the Tampa
region. The man, Rick Ware, owns a dock that sits on St. Petersburg’s Snell
Islan...
4 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...
4 months ago
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Greece re-enters Top 10 riskiest sovereigns...sort of
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Greek Credit Default Swaps restarted trade in May since when the country's
risk profile has trended down versus competitors such as Argentina, Cyprus
and V...
4 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...
5 months 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...
7 months 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...
9 months 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
1 year 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...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 years ago
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The revolutionary poor
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*Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. *
Aristotle
2 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
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Commercial real estate
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For those of you who have not seen it, I suggest checking out
http://realestaterisk.blogspot.com.
6 years ago
