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    'Recession Resistant' Las Vegas Suffering Badly

    Priorities man..priorities...
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    An average American indebtedness?

    house can't be worth much more then 100K tops...
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    Car dealers won't trade-in your SUV anymore

    More stupidity by consumers thinking some oversized POS is a status symbol... ...of how dumb you really are.
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    Buy a Property cheaply

    ^^bigger idiot theory well at work there. If your house is on the market that long and hasn't sold, or much less have a look you either: a) REALLY don't want to sell b) asking way too much (dropping 5% is most likely not going to sell it) c) have a $hitty realtor
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    U.S. March retail sales up 0.2%, a bit better than expected

    Let's see ;) Excluding autos, sales rose 0.1% in March, in line with expectations. Excluding gasoline, sales were flat in March. So a few extra cars were bought...hope they were all hybrids :p In a somewhat related note :D Food costs rising fastest in 17 years (AP)
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    Citi: Another $10B, Merrill: $5B in Sub-Prime Writedowns

    http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article3671568.ece CITIGROUP and Merrill Lynch will heap further pain on Wall Street this week as they reveal additional sub-prime write-downs totalling $15 billion (£7.6 billion) or more. In another sign...
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    Why cities like Vallejo, CA are going bankrupt!!!

    cheaper to pay them the overtime in most cases, rather then make up the "shortfall" of positions by hiring and filling all of them...because it would most likely in a time like this require that you then have to lay off a bunch; not a popular route to obviously take. Even if a city actually...
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    San Diego Real Estate recovery in 2024

    2024 theoretically wouldn't be out of the complete equation, although it's likelihood is low. Cycles in many markets can take an easy 8-10 years to work through, if not even much longer...put that around a 2012-2015 deal for SD's case right now. 2024 would say it took nearly 20 years to...
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    Retail Sales: +.3% January

    It wasn't so bad in the beginning with gift certificates, so it didn't highly reflect on many stores sheets...but as demand for them surged, the realization set in that it's going to begin to screw up December sales when it counts the most, so I'm sure some adjustments were made to accommodate...
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    Retail Sales: +.3% January

    Both regular and "excluding autos." Guess a lot of gift cards were spent...
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    Economic Neutron Bomb You Should Have All Seen Coming: Interest Rate Cuts Won't Help

    "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." Even if the bank project is only converting those *currently* behind....can't imagine others like the above that'll eventually fall behind in the next year, 2 years, then the reset point in 3...long after this project is in the works/done...
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    Lee Iacocca Calls BULLSHIT On America's "Leaders"

    Here's more of a "full" excerpt...
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    Lee Iacocca Calls BULLSHIT On America's "Leaders"

    people like Lee are few and far between to begin with. These days, it's just gotten worse :(
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    Six U.S. Banks Plan New Efforts to Stem Foreclosures

    and they dubbed it "Project Lifeline" that's gonna be one hell of a rope needed.
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    How to Clean up WinXP

    Also may be good when SP3 comes out to make a copy disc with it "slipstreamed" in so when you (re)install Windows, it's already there (saves the additional install)...those instructions will be out there soon enough on Google (can check on how to do SP2 as well as other programs/drivers you know...
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    hip hoppers begin property LIQUIDATION!!

    50's house has been on the block for quite some time...8, 9 months now I believe...
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    Hows that dollar doing???

    and the raise will be more then the actual "raise"...
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    9/18/07 - A Sad Day For America

    ^ | | over/under on owning that car if bought is currently set now at 11 months...
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