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He could be referring to this line from Henry VI: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. http://www.spectacle.org/797/finkel.html -v

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fed26aug26,1,7185861.story?coll=la-headlines-business If 'Bubble' Bursts, Legacy of Greenspan May Deflate By Bill Sing Times Staff Writer August 26, 2005 As central bankers and prominent economists gather today in Wyoming to assess Alan Greenspan's...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/12/opinion/12krugman.html?pagewanted=print August 12, 2005 Safe as Houses By PAUL KRUGMAN I used to live next door to a Russian émigré. One day he asked me to explain something that puzzled him about his new country. "This place seems very rich," he said...

Oldie but goody, from last year... http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/Sir-John-Templeton-interview.html Q: Do you think there is a real estate bubble in the U.S.? John Templeton: Yes. Real estate is very different from the stock market because it's so local and separate in terms of...

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/business/11351514.htm Buy energy with caution; watch for collapse in real estate By Bill Deener KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE Energy and home building stocks have levitated into the heavenly spheres, but now some on Wall Street think they are headed...

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/07/MNGOTBLIIR1.DTL Real estate investors cast watchful eye on Las Vegas' high stakes housing game - Kelly Zito, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, March 7, 2005 Las Vegas' lucky number last year was 52 -- as in 52 percent. That's how...

http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3722894 Global house prices Still want to buy? Mar 3rd 2005 From The Economist print edition According to our latest house-price indicators, it is now much cheaper to rent than to buy a house in many countries WHEN The...

Buyers can be wealthy . . . or just savvy (pt. 2) "Today, we're buying houses like we buy cars, based on the (lowest) monthly payment," said Mark Eitel, managing partner of Palm Beach Gardens-based Schaffer Mortgage Corp. "But the scary thing is the average guy who works his fingers to the...

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epaper/2005/02/13/m1a_house_prices_0213.html BEHIND THE HOUSING BOOM Buyers can be wealthy . . . or just savvy More people are financing big houses with new loan options such as interest-only mortgages. They're banking on fast profit, not...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/03/garden/03turf.html Condo Fever Turns Buyers Into Early Birds By MOTOKO RICH ANGELINA UMANSKY, a 39-year-old spa owner from San Francisco, was visiting a friend in Miami two weeks ago when she heard about a new condo development downtown. Hoping to find a...

Another option is quote.com livecharts. This is a browser-based charting application that uses java. It sometimes has issues with reliability as many here can tell you, but they include delayed data on all the exchanges you don't subscribe to and quite a bit of price history in the charts. I...

I live in Marin County, CA, and have noticed an explosion in the number of touch screens you have to deal with. Wells Fargo ATM machines, Safeway Point of Sale terminals, all are being "upgraded" with these new devices. The other day, I saw an elderly man struggling with an ATM touch screen...

Out of curiosity, which all-time high was that? I thought the high was in March.

Both of my parents were born slightly before 1946, but I definitely consider them to be baby boomers. I doubt most people would consider someone born in 1964 to be a baby boomer. When Douglas Coupland wrote "Generation X," he was talking about people of my generation, usually the early...

Ah well. What can you do? -v

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http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^VIX&d=c&k=c1&a=v&p=s&t=my&l=off&z=m&q=b http://www.cboe.com/MktData/vixarchive.xls OHLC 10/19/87 71.33 152.48 62.48 150.19 According to the CBOE web site, the VIX index was introduced in 1993, but I guess it can be calculated for any times when the OEX...

There is an old CME web page with an applet that shows the top five bids and offers on ES and NQ. It changed servers a while back, but still appears to work. http://128.167.130.6/WebQuote/fortune50a.html -v

I think he means the September contract of the S&P futures, though that could be SP or ES (they're pretty close, anyway). My guess is that we'll move higher this week. The threads "Dow Crashing" and so on have given a good summary of some indicators pointing to a short-term bounce, among...

LOL. Remind me not to post any pictures of my place at the transient hotel--er, country club. -v