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April 10, 2011

Real Estate Appraisal – Inc.com

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Inc.com
Real Estate Appraisal
Inc.com
The housing market hasn't bounced back, but the market for those who assign properties their values sure has. By Drew Gannon | @drewgannon | When the housing bubble burst and the recession hit, real estate became an industry to exit, and exit quickly.

Real Estate Appraisal – Inc.com

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Inc.com
Real Estate Appraisal
Inc.com
The housing market hasn't bounced back, but the market for those who assign properties their values sure has. By Drew Gannon | @drewgannon | When the housing bubble burst and the recession hit, real estate became an industry to exit, and exit quickly.

Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education. – TechCrunch

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Peter Thiel: We're in a Bubble and It's Not the Internet. It's Higher Education.
TechCrunch
Like the housing bubble, the education bubble is about security and insurance against the future. Both whisper a seductive promise into the ears of worried Americans: Do this and you will be safe. The excesses of both were always excused by a core

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Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education. – TechCrunch

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Peter Thiel: We're in a Bubble and It's Not the Internet. It's Higher Education.
TechCrunch
Like the housing bubble, the education bubble is about security and insurance against the future. Both whisper a seductive promise into the ears of worried Americans: Do this and you will be safe. The excesses of both were always excused by a core

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Goldman Sachs chief Blankfein was ’stunned’ by SEC lawsuit: extract from Money … – Telegraph.co.uk

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Telegraph.co.uk
Goldman Sachs chief Blankfein was 'stunned' by SEC lawsuit: extract from Money
Telegraph.co.uk
proprietary bet by a small group of Goldman traders ? led by Dan Sparks, Josh Birnbaum and Michael Swenson ? beginning in December 2006, that the housing bubble would collapse and that the securities tied to home mortgages would rapidly lose value.

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Spain will be next – Business Spectator

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Spain will be next
Business Spectator
Spain had an extreme property bubble before the crisis, and unlike in the US and Ireland, prices have so far fallen only moderately. According to data from Bank of International Settlements, real house prices in Spain ? price per square metre adjusted

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Goldman Sachs chief Blankfein was ’stunned’ by SEC lawsuit: extract from Money … – Telegraph.co.uk

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Telegraph.co.uk
Goldman Sachs chief Blankfein was 'stunned' by SEC lawsuit: extract from Money
Telegraph.co.uk
proprietary bet by a small group of Goldman traders ? led by Dan Sparks, Josh Birnbaum and Michael Swenson ? beginning in December 2006, that the housing bubble would collapse and that the securities tied to home mortgages would rapidly lose value.

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Goldman Sachs chief Blankfein was ’stunned’ by SEC lawsuit: extract from Money … – Telegraph.co.uk

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Telegraph.co.uk
Goldman Sachs chief Blankfein was 'stunned' by SEC lawsuit: extract from Money
Telegraph.co.uk
proprietary bet by a small group of Goldman traders ? led by Dan Sparks, Josh Birnbaum and Michael Swenson ? beginning in December 2006, that the housing bubble would collapse and that the securities tied to home mortgages would rapidly lose value.

and more »

Complacent Europe must realise Spain will be next – Financial Times

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Complacent Europe must realise Spain will be next
Financial Times
Spain had an extreme property bubble before the crisis, and unlike in the US and Ireland, prices have so far fallen only moderately. According to data from Bank of International Settlements, real house prices in Spain ? price per square metre adjusted

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Signs point to a severe housing correction in Canada – Globe and Mail

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Globe and Mail
Signs point to a severe housing correction in Canada
Globe and Mail
By way of a comparison, this ratio peaked at about 6.1 per cent in the US in the mid-2000s at the height of its housing bubble, and toward the end of the 1980s in Japan, when that country was nearing the end of its own property boom.

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Signs point to a severe housing correction in Canada – Globe and Mail

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Globe and Mail
Signs point to a severe housing correction in Canada
Globe and Mail
By way of a comparison, this ratio peaked at about 6.1 per cent in the US in the mid-2000s at the height of its housing bubble, and toward the end of the 1980s in Japan, when that country was nearing the end of its own property boom.

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Signs point to a severe housing correction in Canada – CTV.ca

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Signs point to a severe housing correction in Canada
CTV.ca
By way of a comparison, this ratio peaked at about 6.1 per cent in the US in the mid-2000s at the height of its housing bubble, and toward the end of the 1980s in Japan, when that country was nearing the end of its own property boom.

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Signs point to a severe housing correction in Canada – CTV.ca

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Signs point to a severe housing correction in Canada
CTV.ca
By way of a comparison, this ratio peaked at about 6.1 per cent in the US in the mid-2000s at the height of its housing bubble, and toward the end of the 1980s in Japan, when that country was nearing the end of its own property boom.

and more »

Goldman Sachs chief Blankfein was ’stunned’ by SEC lawsuit: extract from Money … – Telegraph.co.uk

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Telegraph.co.uk
Goldman Sachs chief Blankfein was 'stunned' by SEC lawsuit: extract from Money
Telegraph.co.uk
proprietary bet by a small group of Goldman traders ? led by Dan Sparks, Josh Birnbaum and Michael Swenson ? beginning in December 2006, that the housing bubble would collapse and that the securities tied to home mortgages would rapidly lose value.

and more »

EDITORIAL: Make budget scrutiny full-time job – Monroe News Star

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EDITORIAL: Make budget scrutiny full-time job
Monroe News Star
The economy has been bad since the housing bubble turned into a national recession in December 2007. Unemployment rose, so did the need for safety-net programs, but sales tax revenue dipped. The recovery has been slow. If the reassessment of property

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Rebuilding livelihoods – Lancaster Newspapers

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Rebuilding livelihoods
Lancaster Newspapers
Now, four years after the housing bubble burst and new construction here in Lancaster County and across the country took a nose dive, Artz is down to a staff of one ? himself. To pay the bills, Artz, who is also a real estate broker, founded a new

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LETTERS: No on to blame for OWIs – The Daily Advertiser

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LETTERS: No on to blame for OWIs
The Daily Advertiser
The economy has been bad since the housing bubble turned into a national recession in December 2007. Unemployment rose, so did the need for safety-net programs, but sales tax revenue dipped. The recovery has been slow. If the reassessment of property

Census: Many Las Vegas areas are nearly deserted – Las Vegas Review-Journal

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Census: Many Las Vegas areas are nearly deserted
Las Vegas Review-Journal
When the housing bubble blew and the economy sank, thousands of Southern Nevadans pulled up stakes and abandoned their homes, leaving one in seven houses a vacant shell. But as is often the case with statistics, the numbers don't tell the whole story,

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Census: Many Las Vegas areas are nearly deserted – Las Vegas Review – Journal

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Census: Many Las Vegas areas are nearly deserted
Las Vegas Review – Journal
When the housing bubble blew and the economy sank, thousands of Southern Nevadans pulled up stakes and abandoned their homes, leaving one in seven houses a vacant shell. But as is often the case with statistics, the numbers don't tell the whole story,

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April 9, 2011

Paul Ryan’s Valuable Service – OpEd – Eurasia Review

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Eurasia Review
Paul Ryan's Valuable Service – OpEd
Eurasia Review
For example, the 73-page outline makes no reference to the recession caused by the collapse of the housing bubble. Is it possible that Representative Ryan has not noticed all the people in his district in Wisconsin and elsewhere who have lost their

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