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"Milk" looks like a pretty good proxy for urban vs. rurual area codes (a movie like "Eagle Eye" tends to be the inverse). "Twilight" avoids areas like Bainbridge, Vashon and Medina where there's fewer teenagers.
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SeattleMoose wrote: Good to see growing awareness of a crime that implicates not only JPMC, but the FED, Goldman Sachs, and the federal government......essentially the very core of the "East Coast Financial Mafia". Maybe I'm just cynical, b…
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I've known that for quite some time, I'm not sure what took new research to figure that out. rose-colored-coolaid wrote: The bad news is that none of the CDOs currently in existence could ever be sold again either, which would force their owner…
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http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0506027 We analyze the quarterly average sale prices of new houses sold in the USA as a whole, in the northeast, midwest, south, and west of the USA, in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia of the USA, …
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: 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…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: davidlosh@davidlosh.com wrote: Is there building wealth with out risk? Can you build wealth without debt? The answers are no (on a technicality) and yes. Every action you take (or don't take) has some inhere…
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China appears to have just popped an echo-bubble, or undergoing a very sharp correction, shanghai index is down sharply: http://stockcharts.com/charts/gallery.html?$SSEC We are also going to see a flood of negative housing reports soon. And w…
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housing is seasonal, like clockwork. be patient and wait for winter.
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its called a "dead cat bounce"
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davidlosh@davidlosh.com wrote: My observation would be that those people who risk debt to get a return seem to be a lot freer with the life style. On this blog The Tim is a play on The Donald. Donald Trump encourages leveraging. That seems risky b…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: lamont wrote: We also don't really have a lot of stars likely to pop right next to us with enough force that they would disturb the Earth itself. Even if Betelgeuse busted a nut it is way too far away to disturb th…
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If you were there and got killed, you are culpable because you chose to be at the ball game at that time. If you hadn't been there, you wouldn't have gotten killed. Some of you would state that no one is culpable for the ACT of the meteor hitting …
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: You don't have a clue what over-engineering means do you? Anything that is designed at great cost to outlive its own usefulness is over-engineered. A freeway that we constantly need to repave is not over-engineered. …
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The Tim wrote: Via Examiner.com: Google is laying off contractors and administrators Apparently, Google is laying-off a large number of sub-contracted employees and full-time employees that manage those contractors. The layoffs are taking place …
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biliruben wrote: Damn straight. He should have gotten busy and colonized Alpha Centuri. Duh. Not far enough away. We also don't really have a lot of stars likely to pop right next to us with enough force that they would disturb the E…
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PublicEnemy#1 wrote: Racket wrote: Accident avoidance is much more critical that accident survival. If you can avoid an accident you will always survive unscathed right? I completely agree. Accident avoidance is what I do every day.…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: I will agree that I would rather have the older/rock-solid tech in many optional features. E.g. unless the motor and switches and wires needed to roll up/down my window are designed to last 300,000 miles, I'll just tak…
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The Tim wrote: Who said anything about the stuff in the Saleen S7 being 'clever'? It wasn't me. In fact, the do-hickeys I designed were dirt-simple relay boards. But what you posted spoke to me about the volume and 'impressiveness' of the…
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The Tim wrote: When I went to their factory a few years back (a few do-hickeys I designed were going into them to control mundane things like wipers and HVAC) it was difficult not to drool on the production line. The sparkling clean production li…
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redmondjp wrote: There's something to be said for the older iron. Much like I'd be perfectly happy to have Windows 95 still running on my home computer—it did everything perfectly well that I need to do now at home, and MUCH faster than any of to…
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My base gross salary is about $98k and with bonuses it can push that over $100k a little bit (not wall-street magnitude bonuses, but the odd $5k retention bonus here or there). My employee stock option grants are down to 25% of their exercise price…
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Wanderer wrote: So, crunch all those numbers together and you will find... it is a bad financial move. My out of pocket expense will be ~$1000/month, but the real cost will be ~$1700/month. I plan on reflecting on the merits of the decision when…
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Amazon does that during good times and bad. They aggressively topgrade employees and try to let go 5-10% every year, layoffs usually occur a little earlier in the year, however, after the performance review cycle that starts in Feb or so. Amaz…
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rose-colored-coolaid wrote: Agreed...mostly. Except, this isn't really a 8 year problem, it's a problem 28 years in fomenting. OK, you can ignore Clinton's last term I guess, but it's not like running massive deficits in times of general peace i…
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The Tim wrote: Lake Hills Renter wrote: I have to wonder if those who attempted to coin the word "teabagging" for these events were aware it already had a meaning. As far as I've seen, the only people calling it "teabagging" are those a…
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At least Obama doesn't make out with him like the last guy did:
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ira s wrote: ....and 16th and Spruce ain't exactly the top of Queen Anne, though I guess there's the Home of Good BBQ premium. yeah, i wish they would have built more neighborhood stores and fewer endless clones of townhouses around here...…
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ira s wrote: Lamont, I'm seeing five single family homes currently for sale in the 98122 zip code for under 300k. Not pretty, in fact I think the meth addicts live there. Seems to me that because the western side of 98122 is so close to downtown…
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davidlosh@davidlosh.com wrote: OK that time the link to the historical Dow chart worked. Look at the run up in the Dow between 1988 to 2007. There is no comparison to the Great Depression according to the chart. The shear volume of dollars c…
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I'm renting in 98122 / central district and I'm wondering when its going to work its way to here. Still no foreclosures listed, still nothing under $300k in the neighborhood, still no signs of a breakdown in prices on redfin, still piles of townhou…