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If feet keep getting bigger, they will. You know what bigger feet means, don't you?
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The New York Times had a nice article about when the gentrification recedes. It mentions Beacon Hill specifically, though the article is about an LA neighborhood.
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Plus we'd have to give up our shiny mantle as having the most regressive state taxation scheme in the country. Nobody screws the poor like Washington, baby! Wahoo!
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Man, you guys are picky. Near Georgetown Brewery and convenient to Boeing Field. Think about how much you can save drinking $8 fresh jugs of Manny's all day and night. Drink enough, you won't hear the whine of the engines. Glad to so low rent…
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BTW, despite Leanne's hysterical rant the other day really, really freaking me out, I'm buying a house. We're over-paying, but it's pretty close to exactly what we were looking for - fantastic view lot in-city with a so-so house that is very livabl…
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The reality is that it really isn't particularly bad here... yet. 6.3% unemployment for the total MSA, and most of that up-tick driven by construction, which I'm guessing is focused more in Snoho and Pierce than King. Sure, psychologically peo…
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Why wouldn't the actual planning be considered stimulus as well? In other words, why does everyone imagine stimulus as a bunch of dudes digging a ditch? Why can't it first be architects, accountants and engineers planning the project?
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Stimulus compromise reached. And it's the worst of both worlds. Huge amount of money, but so emasculated that it probably won't achieve it's objective. Yuck.
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We've had over 2 trillion in tax-cuts over the last 8 years, and it's led us to the brink of disaster, with no cushion to soften to blow. Anyone who claims more of the same is the solution, has to explain why tax cuts were an appalling failure so…
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Tim - I read the relatively small provisions he put in this bill as either strongly related to jobs or infrastructure or both, and relatively uncontroversial. It's not like he's trying to jam universal health care in there (I can dream). What in…
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I generally only give significant credence to economists that that had some inkling that the crash was coming; Roubini, CR, The Economist, Krugman, MISH (who's in sniglet's camp), angry bear and the like. The vast majority think deflation and depre…
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Cato is generally anti-government intervention. It ain't a shock that they disagree with government intervention. They wouldn't be non-partisan if libertarians had more than a handful of viable candidates. What education and health care changes…
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I am surprised I haven't seen pictures of how the spending is broken down by type. Well you haven't looked then. Again, this complete distrust of the vast majority of economists from all over the political spectrum is flabbergasting. The …
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I can't shake the feeling that these dire warnings of impending irreversible economic doom are basically nothing more than a front to rapidly push through a massive policy bill with as little debate as possible. I'm not sure how to constructi…
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I'm all ears as to what your solution is. I think investment of 2 trillion in infrastructure and jobs programs to build a base for our future economic growth might just get us to avoid the most dire result. Maybe. We aren't spending enough, i…
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For the other side of the story, Here is the testimony of the director of the CBO before Congress: The economy is currently enduring a recession that started more than a year ago. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that, in the absenc…
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No sweat, Tim. I can certainly see that, though that isn't what I meant. I was just giving what I thought was a light-hearted push to use more credible links, mainly because I'm generally too busy or lazy to read the primary source. As for the …
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Logical fallacy and ad hominem attacks? A little defensive, or what? Where you got that from my suggesting your source has a tendency to spin, (which anyone who reads them regularly can hardly deny), and saying I'd wait until I was able to acces…
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Jebus, Tim. This site's got more credibility than the Washington Times. I think I'll wait until I can access the PDF, rather than take their interpretation of the CBO analysis at face value. Focus on quality!
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I believe she did have an option arm, iirc. Either that or interest only. Either way, she probably owes more than 850K.
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My guess is she doesn't have much in the way of assets, and from what I recall she's mortgaged to the hilt, and there are close to 2 years of comparable homes on the market in her area. Why wouldn't she do a short sale? She's a smart lady who un…
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http://angrybear.blogspot.com/ - A liberal, political blog with some good, but very bearish, economic analysis. http://seekingalpha.com/dashboard/the_macro_view?source=headtabs - Sort of a catch-all stock site. Often bearish, but occasionally so…
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Yeah, that's the first time I posted over there in quite a while, and almost immediately regretted it. Lar is the one who bugs me the most. As far as I can tell he's stupid, mean-spirited and smug. At least Mack and Kary have a brain, and every …
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Land prices have 3 times the variation that house prices have. If you can't get the loan to build it out, and right now you likely can't, the value of the land drops through the floor. Unless you can find a knife catching "investor" who has ne…
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No doubt. He was in many ways the perfect fan for Seattle sports. A senseless attack.
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I hadn't seen much in the way of true audaciousness recently, leading me to believe we were, well, past the top. http://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/9211-Mary-Ave-NW-98117/home/96584 I was wrong! 127K in 1995.... 37,995,000 in 2008! It's…
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Yeah, it looks like Lake Forest Park is taking a beating. It seems like the only house that has sold up there for more than half a million is the one we wanted, and had watched for a year, only to sell a couple days before we got our offer in. H…
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Look, Ma! No walls! I've actually noticed several in-city houses in the last week listed below their last sale price that actually have walls. I'll see if I can remember where they are. Slip slidin' away.
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Yeah, it was discussed in comp killers at the end of June, as well as more recently regarding the recent auction, though I can't recall where.
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Redmondjp. Google: bitter guns religion. And then I'll welcome you to the U.S. presidential campaign coverage!