FROM THE LA TIMES…….
Most Southern California homes sold in October were foreclosures
Prices fall to 2003 levels, continuing to draw bargain-hunting buyers.
By Peter Y. Hong
11:09 AM PST, November 18, 2008
For the first time in the current housing downturn, the majority of Southern California homes sold in October — 51% — had been foreclosed, a real estate […]
AH, THE GLOOM AND DOOM OF IT ALL
WHOPEE!
THE LAST SENTENCE SAYS MOST OF IT……
PAUL B. FARRELL
30 reasons for Great Depression 2 by 2011
New-New Deal, bailouts, trillions in debt, antitax mindset spell disaster
By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch
Last update: 7:19 p.m. EST Nov. 17, 2008Comments: 990
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) — By 2011? No recovery? No new bull? […]
On second thought, as the NEW YORK TIMES indicates, there is no reason given the nature of the Bush administration, to expect anything different….
Note the word “quietly” in the headline……
November 18, 2008
Iraq Quietly Dismisses Its Anticorruption Officials
By JAMES GLANZ and RIYADH MOHAMMED
BAGHDAD — The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing oversight […]
LARRY KING, THANKS FOR FINALLY GETTING AROUND TO A SERIOUS TOPIC
November 17, 2008
Few Humble Thoughts about the Economy By Ben Stein
Posted: 12:51 PM ET
Few Humble Thoughts About The Economy
By Ben Stein, Larry King Live Blog Exclusive
We are clearly in a serious slowdown. A slowdown this serious, fed by a credit shutdown, will not stop automatically […]
Please spend some time thinking carefully about how Barack Obama will organize his government. I am already convinced that he himself is thinking in Abraham Lincoln’s sense, of working to co-opt his rivals in both parties, Hillary Clinton and John McCain especially, to assist in his coming administration.
The point is that Clinton deserves it; […]
CHUCK JAFFE
Five rules for investing in an unruly market
Commentary: Don’t peek at your post-peak portfolio
By Chuck Jaffe, MarketWatch
BOSTON (MarketWatch) — Jack Bogle, the founder of the Vanguard Group, reminded me recently that one of his “prime rules of investing” can be summed up in two words: Don’t peek.
“Peek the day you retire,” Bogle said, “and […]
FROM THE BLOGGER IN THE OBSERVER…….(THE GUARDIAN), AGAIN, FOR ALL THOSE HEALTH 239 STUDENTS WAY BACK WHEN….
Mary Warnock
guardian.co.uk, Sunday November 16 2008 00.01 GMT
The Observer, Sunday November 16 2008
Kingsley Amis once said, truly: ‘Nice things are nicer than nasty things.’ On this hangs all morality. It is because we know that some things are intolerable, […]