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POPSNational News vs. Local News The statistics I see for Spokane show our market holding their value from last year or perhaps slightly declining. All these gloom and doom predictions may compel some buyers to wait and become a self fulfilling prophecy. Now is a great time to buy.
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POPSSixth Straight Month of Job Losses The piece goes on: "We had thought that the rate had temporarily overshot in May based on problems seasonally adjusting the summer inflow of students into the work force," Nigel Gault, the chief U.S. economist for forecaster Global Insight in Lexington, Mass., said in a research note to investors. "But the unemployment rate for young workers was little changed this month, suggesting that they are simply facing a much weaker labor market than in previous years." This shoots Labor Secretary Elaine Chao's argument that the job market reflects teen workers all to hell.
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POPSMisery index Potential Article title: The Land-Pain Threshold... At a point in time where individuals are screaming that there is no debt available for land... and their is exesss equity on the sidelines, there has to be a threshold by which we tend to decide to jump back in... We can look at the "Misery" index... and correlate that index with the cost of land... and the index of homebuilders... and get to a number that is overly complicated... bottom line. Find the deals
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POPSIL unclaimed money An online search for Illinois unclaimed money can get extra cash in residents' hands. Hundreds of people owed at least $10,000 from Illinois state unclaimed property.
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POPSCartoons from the Middle East (16 pics) In conjunction with the British Council, the Guardian Foundation presents a showcase of cartoonists from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Here are just a few of the selected cartoons ... Guardian
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POPSAustralian Gov't feed us bulsh@^! Skills crisis!!! to work at maccas or kill more chicken!!! they really think we are stupid!!!!! more evidence of coorporate greed (lousy product, most minimum wage possible) and government stupidity (allowing their business friends to import cheap labor with no strings attached) which will result in an influx of immigrants (read cheap labor so the rich can get even more profit without having to pay real wages and these immigrants wont care about rights and pensions etc) therefore the australian worker is by passed, . , as it is they can't ever get your order right.
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POPSSound Bites And Sloganeering Just Won’t Cut It Anymore even including such environmentally sensitive countries as the United Kingdom, Norway and France—to limit oil and gas exploration to this extent. Gulf of Mexico that hold billions of barrels of oil and gas are inaccessible for purely political reasons. Appeasing Florida’s real-estate and tourism industries has been more important than U.S. energy security. In addition, politicians throw red meat to the crowd by promising to punish the oil industry for its huge profits, overlooking the small problem that much of this profit is not even made in the United States. In fact, it is not the oil companies, but producing countries like Venezuela, Mexico, Iran and Russia that are provoking the pending production crunch through lack of investment. National oil companies now control nearly 80 percent of worldwide reserves, leaving major Western multinationals with full access to only 6 percent.
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POPSThe US economy These gains in income and wealth have resulted directly in a better standard of living for virtually every segment of American society—including the poor. Among families living below the official poverty line in the early 1970s, less than 40 percent had a car, almost none had color televisions, and air conditioning was virtually unheard of; in 2004, 46 percent owned their own homes, almost 75 percent owned a car (indeed, 30 percent owned two or more cars), 97 percent had color TVs, and 67 percent had air conditioning. The poor in the U.S. have an average of 721 square feet of living space per person, as compared with 430 in Sweden and 92 in Mexico.
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POPSWelcome To Unemployed Loans Loans to unemployed people often carry an artificially high rate of interest. Because there is a short-term loans, is charged with a high degree of interest is not a rarity. A further push for the interest rate of unemployment is given by the borrower, and the resulting risk. By following the standard selection procedures and to base decisions on rational principles, borrowers will ensure that loans to unemployed successfully accomplish its purpose of providing financial support during unemployment.
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POPSWelcome to Loans for unemployed Unemployment underestimate the power they can get from unsecured loans. Unemployment is difficult, but it does not have to be an economic disaster. Unemployment unsecured loans offer you the gift of normal living in spite of unemployment. Enjoy an occasional binge Yes, you can even do so with unsecured unemployed loans, but this time the budget plan more carefully and stick to it.
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POPSMore "Free" Money! More economic proposals to come: Obama in his speech criticized his Republican rival, John McCain, for proposing to extend all of President Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. But Obama himself has taken a page from Bush's playbook on taxes. Obama has pledged to keep the tax cuts in place for everyone except those making roughly $250,000 and up. He has also made proposals to cut taxes further for the middle class, some of which he reiterated in his speech: exempt seniors making less than $50,000 from having to pay income tax; give a tax credit worth up to $500 per working person ($1,000 per family) to offset the Social Security tax on the first $8,100 of earnings; and expand the earned income tax credit. To boost retirement savings, he has also proposed a 50% federal match on the first $1,000 of savings for families that earn under $75,000. ****Vote 4 Me, I'll give you more free money!
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POPSScandal As Ahmadinejad's Ally Makes Accusations Of Corruption Professor Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University in New York, said that commentators were mistakenly writing off Mr Ahmadinejad in next year’s presidential elections. “He is a ferocious competitor, an edgy populist who wins the hearts of his lumpen proletariat countrymen even while he is demolishing the economy, and a supremely ambitious politician who is a threat to the entire post-revolutionary establishment,” Prof Sick told The Times.
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POPSWhat The Media Didn’t Tell You About The Unemployment Spike Congress is to blame. Last year Congressional Democrats (along with some Stockholm-Syndromed Republicans) passed the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007, which started a phased hike of the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25. Free market economists warned them that this would increase unemployment – that rapid increases in unemployment compensation hit teens and minorities the hardest. But the class-warriors are running the people’s house now, and they would hear none of that, so they took to the floor, let loose the dogs of demagoguery, and saddled America’s pizza parlors, municipal swimming pools, house painting businesses and lawn mowing services with a huge cost increase.
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