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Succinct Summations of Week’s Events (May 24 2013)
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Succinct Summations for the week ending May 24. Very light data week
despite all the noise. Positives: 1. U.S. jobless claims fell 23k to 340k v
expectatio...
32 minutes ago
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The Wonkocracy: Why Can't People Be Reasonable and Do What We Say?
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An inspiring rant from James Poulos at *Forbes* (inspired itself by a very
uninspiring current round of chatter about Josh Barro, but you don't need
the...
38 minutes ago
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Argentina Just Realized That One Of Its Default Holdouts Owns A Factory In
Buenos Aires
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So they raided it, as part of a totally non-retaliatory tax investigation.
So non-retaliatory, in fact, that the federal tax agency felt it could
casuall...
53 minutes ago
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Lawler: Vegas Housing Market: “Sizzlin’ Hot,” and Yet So Cold
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From housing economist Tom Lawler:
Dataquick released its April report on Las Vegas home sales based on
property records in Clark County, Nevada, and the r...
1 hour ago
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Parsing the Federal Reserve
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The Federal Reserve left a lot of people scratching their heads this week.
Between Chairman Ben Bernanke’s testimony, and the release of the minutes
to t...
1 hour ago
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Discussion in Spain on Leaving the Euro; Euro Exit Manifest
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Some common sense discussion is taking place in Spain regarding the
necessity of Spain exiting the eurozone.
For example, please consider Opposition to the...
2 hours ago
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House of the Day: Lavish Silicon Valley Mansion Now Discounted, Asking $27M
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Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We'd love ...
3 hours ago
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Liveblogging World War II: May 24, 1943
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Admiral Karl Donitz: >The overwhelming superiority achieved by the enemy defence was finally proved beyond dispute in the operations against the next two con...
4 hours ago
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Durable Goods Rise More Than Expected In April
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New orders for durable goods rebounded with a 3.3% gain in April after a sharp drop in March, the Census Bureau reports. That's more than double the expected...
5 hours ago
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The Answer To Every Problem
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It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “Is it a bubble? Not yet,
say some Southern Nevada observers. ‘We may be building a foundation for
what wo...
7 hours ago
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Options Abound For Older Homebuyers
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When it comes to residential real estate, age is often overlooked. Well,
more accurately, old age is often overlooked in favor of news and programs
geared ...
8 hours ago
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The Art of Data Visualization
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PBS Off Book's recent episode is on "the art of data visualization." It
feels like a TED talk — kind …
12 hours ago
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Links 5/24/13
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12 hours ago
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The Fed as a Fig Leaf
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Everyone who has been wrong about the market has now joined in a familiar refrain: The Fed is printing money. It is the only thing holding up stocks. It will...
16 hours ago
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STTG Market Recap May 23, 2013
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Thursday could be described as "dip buyers show up again". After the
outside day yesterday on the major indexes, global markets showed a lot of
weakness ov...
21 hours ago
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STTG Market Recap May 23, 2013
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Thursday could be described as "dip buyers show up again". After the
outside day yesterday on the major indexes, global markets showed a lot of
weakness ov...
21 hours ago
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Self-Employment Earnings Puzzle
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I have been reading "The Entrepreneurial Earnings Puzzle: Mismeasurement or Real?" a working paper by Thomas Åstebro and Jing Chen, that looks at the researc...
22 hours ago
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Wisconsin Employment Situation in April
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Newly released BLS data indicate an absence of strong employment growth.
22 hours ago
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Unemployment and commuting
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A recent NY Times story called attention to research by Profs David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald ("Challenge to Dogma on Owning a Home"). The study shows ...
1 day ago
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Security Surveillance Cameras—Posner
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In the wake of the Boston Marathon attack last month, considerable attention is being paid to surveillance cameras, which played a key role in the identifica...
1 day ago
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JNJ Up 20 Weeks in a Row!!
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Another bit of interesting market triva: Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) has
climbed for the past 20 consecutive weeks. Of the current S&P 500 members,
only two ot...
2 days ago
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Rise of the Three-Essays Dissertation
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| Peter Klein | Almost all dissertations in economics and business are of
the “three-essays” variety, rather than conventional book-length treatises.
The m...
3 days ago
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Mark 400, mark 3000: What’s the difference?
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For all the talk about scandals in Washington, the news that caught my eye
was the differing treatment accorded the latest benchmark in the global
warming ...
4 days ago
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Open House Review: 37 Canopy
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Quail Hill Surprise Package Condo
37 Canopy $999,888
Driving up Knollcrest in Quail Hill, I noticed several othe...
1 week ago
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"Cyborg Finance" paper
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Little pre-abstract primer for this paper:
*Detective Del Spooner*: Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams,
but not you, you are just a machine. A...
2 weeks 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 month ago
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Life Is More Interesting than Fiction, *Mr. Selfridge* Edition
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The TV show Mr. Selfridge, discussed in my most recent Bloomberg View
column, is very loosely based on the biography Shopping, Seduction & Mr.
Selfridge by...
1 month ago
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Greatest Country in the World?
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In What Ways America Isn't the greatest country in the world: 1) 7th in
literacy 2) 27th in math 3) 22nd in science 4) 49th life expectancy 5)
178th in inf...
2 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...
3 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...
9 months ago
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Turning the Games into Gold
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Everyone will have fun and games except the British taxpayer
10 months 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...
1 year ago
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Five years too late. Rage.
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Arrest Angelo Mozillo.
Arrest Michael Perry.
Tax the 1%.
Neutralize Citizens United.
Expose the GOP and their masters.
Rage.
Rage.
Rage.
Rage*
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1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
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Weekend Funnies - 4 Sept 11
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Click any image to enlarge - enjoy!
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
2 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...
2 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.
5 years ago
