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A post by ahansen, Following the Great Purge of ‘81, when the first generation of female middle-management was systematically “downsized” in face of looming recession, American business refocused its energies from customer satisfaction to increasing production. Whether this phenomenon was causal or...

Post off-topic ideas, links and Craigslist finds here. Please visit the HBB Forum. And see the American Visionaries series from Schwarzfilm.

Post off-topic ideas, links and Craigslist finds here. Please visit the HBB Forum. And see the American Visionaries series from Schwarzfilm.

Post off-topic ideas, links and Craigslist finds here. Please visit the HBB Forum. And see the American Visionaries series from Schwarzfilm.

Post off-topic ideas, links and Craigslist finds here. Please visit the HBB Forum. And see the American Visionaries series from Schwarzfilm.

It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Sales of single-family houses rose 6.6 percent in July, compared with the same month a year ago, according to a report from the Greater Hartford Association of Realtors, which covers 57 towns stretching from north central Connecticut to Middletown....

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by NYCityBoy This is the second interview in my Regular Guy series of interviews. My story is very similar to many people on this blog. I was born smart and handsome. Those around me recognized my tremendous athletic abilities early in life. At the age of 13 I lifted my first Volkswagen. My charm...

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This thread can double as a bits bucket. I'll hopfully be posting observations, etc, during the next few days on my trip out west.

by Ahansen - August. Typically a month when we Americans take our annual two-week recess from the day-to-day in order to be miserable and harried in a slightly different setting. Some of us hit the road, some the hammock, some hit the bottle –or any combination thereof. All too often, our two weeks...

This thread can double as a bits bucket. I'll be posting observations, etc, during the next few days on my trip out west.

-by the Mysterious Flying Miser Here on the Housing Bubble Blog, we get no shortage of statistics, observations, and calculations regarding the real estate market. But what we don’t see in these statistics is the numbers being created by investors who buy properties en masse in the most severely...

This thread can double as a bits bucket. I'll be posting observations, etc, during the next few days on my trip out west.

-by the Mysterious Flying Miser From the Huffington Post: “These days, homeowners who got fixed-rate prime mortgages because they had good credit can't make their payments because they are out of work. …Unemployment stood at 9.5 percent in June and is expected to rise past 10 percent and well into...

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-by the Mysterious Flying Miser Not long ago, renters and real-estate naysayers were being told that “rich people” were responsible for the outlandish increase in house prices. Some of us tried to argue that rich people were in the habit of borrowing money, and that many of them were borrowing more...

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