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I must have missed the announcement about massive tax increases that prompted Boeing and Microsoft to lay off 20,000 people. Do you have a source for that? "But the real problem in the U.S. labor market today isn't layoffs. It's a hiring free…
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As soon as the tax cut expires, we're back to square one, but with no wide scale benefit. If anything, a tax cut will lead to spending on things we don't need. Not only are the tax cuts going to expire, overall taxes are going to shoot up to …
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A tax break won't help the unemployed. Washington State is boosting its unemployment payments. The best tax cut would be directed towards creating real jobs that won't disappear like morning dew once the handouts stop. Allowing people to s…
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Since you already hired a lawyer and still don't have the money back, the odds are not good at this point. Did the house sell for what your price was? If so, you may be able to argue that the builder suffered no damages and so is not entitled to the…
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"Nobody is spending, and lower taxes simply don't matter right now." The savings rate is up to 3.6%, which is high by recent standards, but in spite of all the hype and scare tactics, the overall economy is only a few percent off of recent highs.…
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I grew up there, Kirkland used to be a middle class enclave and will revert. When I see regular 70's split levels and mock Tudors in Kirkland going for $200K then I'll think a bottom has been reached. Downtown Bellevue and Redmond are not go…
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The tax cuts don't really matter, because they will raise them later anyway or else people will refuse to buy T-bills. In the meantime, letting people keep more of their own money will let them make purchases and thus generate jobs to get people out…
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When the federal government collects taxes and spends the money, it is equivalent to destroying the money coming in and then paying for the spending by printing new money. The stimulus bill is going to decrease the amount of money destroyed and incr…
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"In the end, say economists, it was not public works but an expensive cleanup of the debt-ridden banking system, combined with growing exports to China and the United States, that brought a close to Japan's Lost Decade. This has led many to conclude…
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You can say that the problem is taxes are too low or that spending is too high, but the problem is that you can't have both. This stimulus bill is a lot of both.
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There are numerous well regarded economists who disagree with the stimulus plan. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/ ... 9532.shtml "An unusual aspect of the recent debate in Washington is the lengths that supporters have gone to marginali…
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These stories of worst crash since XXXX sound an awful lot like the baby incubators of Kuwait and the chemical weapons stockpiles of Iraq. More stories to sell newspapers and push through earmarks. And while the money will mostly be spent in 2 sh…
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The bill contains a $2 billion earmark for an energy plant whose design was already discarded as being uneconomical. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/? ... liOTlmYTQ= Who put that earmark in? Rod Blagojevich
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Where does it say in the Constitution that they can enslave me, my children, and my children's children all to bump up the GDP by a percentage point for a year ot two?
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The thing that drives me crazy is that our nation went from having a relatively sound economy built on manufacturing and innovation to having a sham economy built on consumer spending, real estate appreciation, and leveraged financial trickery. …
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The bank retains equity in the house for 5 years, so they could reduce the loan amount below market value and still come out ahead, provided that the amount the owner pays on the mortgage is more than what the bank could rent it out for. This is…
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Financial Opinions Rarely Become Effective Strategies
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The TARP Song http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=265043&widget=1
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"God has called me to leave UR, I'm looking for a new place." Just make sure then when he tells you to kill off the inhabitants, do it quickly or you will be stuck wandering the desert.
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Maybe he meant a 10% cut relative to previously planned growth: http://www.techflash.com/Report_Microso ... 74774.html "The report says the company's real estate and facilities group was working under the assumption "that the company's work fo…
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Isn't there a big employee meeting coming up? Those are for revving up all the Developers Developers Developers. It would destroy that meeting to have a big layoff at about the same time.
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If you go to the bird's eye view, the west facing view shows the house that was torn down and the south view shows the current house.
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jillayne, a HELOC can fix that.
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There have to be more than a few that are tired of Mack and Larry's moronic ramblings and do not want to be associated with them. Let's just hope they don't come here.
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The answer is simple, none would, which is why nobody did. The WWW rollout was a slow affair until just after 1990 when it suddenly "sprung up" There were a lot of profitable ventures that were pre-internet: Prodigy, Compuserve, AOL, and othe…
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. A capitalist would never create a park, or build a levee or dam. There are many private parks and dams. The parks are obvious, those are the places where you pay admission. Private dams are harder to observe, but they show up in statist…
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Seems doubtful to me that an offer 10% under listing would work unless the house has been sitting there quite a while. Since it is far from completion, they don't have much of an incentive to accept your offer now. And from a negotiating standpoint,…
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If the lender is a bank, maybe you can call them up and ask if they would be willing to lease it to you after foreclosure. Seems like most of those auctions just wind up with the lender owning the property as no one is willing to pay off the loan. H…
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Why is it a given that building even more homes or bridges is better for the economy than funding new start-ups, or manufacturing facilities? Bridges and other infrastructure is a natural role for government, and so they might as well build t…
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The $500K -> $470K -> $499K strategy is interesting in a market where people will not make a quick decision. The $470K price will get the attention of buyers, and before they pull the trigger, the price is back up.