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Only 15.2% of decrease over the past 3 years? Median home price: $371,000 Value lost since 2006: 15.2% Forecast gain by 2011*: 3.8% Maybe the fact that 2006 was not the high water mark her like in other places is skewing their numbe…
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This is just anecdotal, but it sure seems like the only way stores are getting much foot traffic are those running large discounts. This is most noticeable, for me, at malls. The one retailer with a blowout sale is pretty busy (though not that bus…
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WestSideBilly wrote: I'm sure you've noticed that as soon as people are around a police car they suddenly "behave" - drive the speed limit, signal, hang up the cell phone - and just as quickly resume their bad habits once the police car is out of …
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WestSideBilly wrote: You can't eliminate the reckless behavior. The point is to teach new drivers to analyze and anticipate. Modern cars are good enough where you can follow the car in front of you and slam on your brakes and usually avoid the c…
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WestSideBilly wrote: I've always felt (and still do) that kids should be required to pass their driver license exam in a vehicle without power brakes, ABS, or power steering, a manual transmission, and about 80 horsepower. Yeah! And make t…
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I've posted before about how I love using radio ads as indicators. They are useful because they are sufficiently cheap that new ads can be put on by just about anyone but they are just expensive enough that only people who think they'll actually ma…
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deejayoh wrote: Personally I'd much rather have a brand new ~250hp accord getting the same mileage as the ~90hp 1981 model I once had! I'd take a middle ground. The 90hp cars were not always pleasurable to drive in certain conditions (merg…
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WestSideBilly wrote: Spec creep bugs me more. It's absurd to have a 290 HP family sedan, but since someone else has 280, 290 is better. It's absurd to have 19" wheels on a street car, but since 18" wheels are good, 19" wheels are better. Why do…
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deprogram wrote: Let it be said that I do not have a problem with safety features. I have issues with feature creep, but nobody else does, apparently. It seems to me that most people dislike feature creep. The only thing is, everybody has …
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WestSideBilly wrote: deprogram wrote: WestSideBilly wrote: This seems relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CU-k0XmLUk Enjoy your big-iron death traps. Oh, that was great! Two completely awful cars destroyed in the na…
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Markor wrote: Wow. This is why I'll be encouraging my kid to learn one of the skills that is last to go in a recession. Like what, panhandling?
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davidlosh wrote: If Boeing workers in Washington State decertify the company can move on. What's the incentive to keep them here? Jobs? They can still leave if workers don't decert. The argument is phrased; Boeing is more likely to remain …
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jon wrote: When productivity was much lower, it required 60 hours of work for each worker to product enough wealth to buy sufficient food, water, and other resources in order to live. Perhaps the green revolution played a small role as well…
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Probably a couple things would happen. Unlike most other major employers in the area, Boeing really is all over the Puget Sound. If the entire company pulled out, real estate in some suburbs like Everett would be decimated while downtown and centr…
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I won't quote most of your retort, because it summarizes to "if I can't steer it, I don't want it". I think you're putting an argument into my mouth I never made. I think cars will still have controls allowing the humans inside to alter speed or d…
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deprogram wrote: I love to drive. I am as infatuated with the automobile as anyone I know - in fact, more so than anyone I know. I love cars. So, why would I ever want to hand over control of the machine to another machine? Finally, the hon…
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jon wrote: I very much agree. That's why I am so opposed to socialism, because it is so well suited to having a dictator siphoning off the wealth of a nation. If people get to keep what they produce, there is much less opportunity for that kind of…
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deprogram wrote: Actually, the stakes have been rising since the mid 90s, but economic bubble theory isn't taught in primary school. I am not an economist, but is there an actual economic bubble theory? Like the kind of theory that might h…
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deprogram wrote: Increasing complexity has NOT led to better and more reliable systems, in fact, often the opposite has been the case. Really? Perhaps you still run Windows 95, then. Because it's simpler and thus more reliable. Likewise,…
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AmazedRenter wrote: My recommended response is to lower your offer price by $10k, then run away as fast as we can. They'll call you back if they're interested. Not necessarily. The original post was not specific about when previous price d…
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deprogram wrote: What if renting costs X and buying costs .75X? Or .65X? Does it make sense to continue renting? Sure, I guess, if in a year or so buying will cost .5X. In our case, it actually IS cheaper to buy. I suspect if you are fin…
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BillE wrote: If a person hasn't saved enough each month to build a decent down payment, how the hell are they going to come up with the extra coin each month to cover the expenses that come with owning? That was my original point. If renti…
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mnewell wrote: I'm currently in the process of buying my first home and would like to use the $8k tax credit to help pay for my closing costs. I have heard conflicting arguments on whether or not I can do this (my mortgage company has not been ab…
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jon wrote: That makes no sense. If there were 100 old cars on the road, and now there are 100 new cars, it should be obvious we won't be needing quite so many new cars in the near future as we did 3 months ago. The alternative would have…
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jon wrote: The borrowing demand forward meme doesn't work because the old cars were destroyed. Production has to increase to replace those. That makes no sense. If there were 100 old cars on the road, and now there are 100 new cars, it sho…
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jon wrote: Time will tell what will be the impact of piling Cap'n Trade and Obamacare on top of Porkulus and the rest. FWIW, replacing nouns of things you dislike with derogatory slang makes your sound highly partisan and like a generally u…
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lamont wrote: I honestly tend to strongly doubt the parallel to the GD chart -- history usually rhymes instead of repeating exactly, and I'm not even sure if we're going to plunge back down to the March lows, but the stock market doesn't go straig…
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davidlosh@davidlosh.com wrote: Debt is the only thing that matters. That's kind of a leap. I wouldn't argue with a straight face that any financial invention is the only thing that matters. Not even wealth in any way shape or form. david…
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Markor wrote: If it was harder to get back to where you were, the market would be predictable in the other direction, and then it wouldn't be hard. So it's not harder. In an unpredictable market it's just as easy (or just as hard) to gain 100% as …
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Yeish. That is uncanny!