Submitted by Econbrowser
What are the respective contributions of national and local factors to recent changes in house prices?
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Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Volatility has returned to the capital markets and that’s good news for strategic-minded investors. Higher volatility is usually associated with lower prices, which in turn can generate more favorable valuations. Deciding when the valuations look sufficiently tempting, however, is never easy.
Consider two asset classes that have been under pressure of late: […]

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Submitted by A Dash of Insight
There are plenty of market worries, and major indices broke technical support today. Our TCA model flipped negative as a result, but there are still plenty of attractive sectors.
What does this mean for investors?
Housing and Recession
Regular readers of “A Dash” know that we do not expect a recession. […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

From today’s WSJ editorial “Movin’ On Up,” which is based on a Treasury Department study to be released today:
One of the notable, and reassuring, findings is that nearly 58% of filers who were in the poorest quintile in 1996 had moved into a higher income category by 2005. Nearly 25% jumped into […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

WSJ Front Page: Amid a severe kidney-donor shortage, an idea long considered anathema in the medical community is gaining new currency: payments for people willing to give up a kidney.
Under the current system, patients who need a kidney transplant are put on a waiting list for kidneys from deceased donors, which are […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

WASHINGTON D.C. — The number of international students enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States increased by 3% to a total of 582,984 in the 2006-07 academic year, according to the Institute of International Education (IIE). This is the first significant increase in total international student enrollments since 2001-02. The […]

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Submitted by Econbrowser
The credit crunch seems to be worsening, rather than lessening, and the conundrum seems to have disappeared.
Continue reading “The Credit Crunch Continues, and the Conundrum Is History”
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Submitted by unsettling economics
“Presidents at 12 private universities received more than $1 million in the 2005-6 school year, the most recent period for which data on private institutions is available, up from seven a year earlier, according to an annual survey of presidential pay to be released today by The Chronicle of Higher Education. […]

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