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...Home prices will not get better until the elements that made housing prices perform so well for almost ten years return. Those elements may not come back with the force that they had in 2003, 2004, and 2005, but they must make a modest recovery for housing to recover. People have to be able to believe that they have some meager job security. A bank has to tell them that it wants their business. And, they have to feel that they can, if only rarely, get a raise...
...makeup of the H1N1 virus originated in pigs, the flu itself was not directly transmitted from pigs to humans. Ironically, there is at least one documented case of it going the other way: the flu has been transmitted from a man to a herd of pigs in Canada. But almost all transmission is human-to-human...
...this truth. "People like to talk about green shoots," New York University economist Nouriel Roubini said during a recent visit to TIME. "All I see is a lot of yellow weeds." On the other hand, a slowing in the pace of decline during a recession has in the past almost invariably segued into the end of that decline, recession maven Lakshman Achuthan of the Economic Cycle Research Institute said in an e-mail. (See how the recession has affected Americans' spending habits...
...infer, and it doesn’t seem likely, but for all its timidity, “Nobody Move” is best read as any other story. Sympathy falls typically, but genuinely, in favor of Luntz, especially when, in the face of almost certain castration, he tells a story about accepting a lottery ticket over a sizable amount of money as payment for childhood chores. Gambol, the debt-collector, for all his aloofness and savagery (he intends to eat the testicles in question), isn’t beyond love either; his relationship with the retired female Army medic...
...Luckily, Harvard is better equipped to weather this crisis than almost any other institution. I am confident that through the creativity and intelligence of our community, a great deal of money could be saved without cutting jobs. Harvard’s endowment is massive—no matter how much money we’ve lost in the current crisis. And we continue to enjoy the financial perks of being a nonprofit, which means that we do not pay taxes on the endowment money that we have amassed over the years...