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...system for saving housing is so perfectly built that it cannot not possibly fail. It has powerful dynamics to create demand which will meet a supply of homes available at prices which must be in the process of bottoming. The reasoning here becomes circular. Housing prices are finding a floor because of the government's help to create demand. The actual issue of whether people will buy homes is left out of the equation...
...What cannot be known but can be inferred from the information available now is that the perception of potential home buyers is that prices will go lower. Home buyers are not jumping into the market the way stock traders did a month ago when they were convinced that the S&P was as low as it would...
...proposal was using the TV business as a model. A large amount of television content is free and supported by advertising. Other content is part of basic cable, and there is some income in being part of that distribution channel. Finally, pay TV creates a wall that the consumer cannot get over unless he is willing to shell out for premium content like movies. (See pictures of Google Earth...
...associate Census director in the 1990s, Groves angered Republicans by supporting a statistical adjustment to compensate for the 1990 undercount - a move that was eventually squashed by the then Republican Commerce Secretary overseeing the Census Bureau. The Supreme Court later ruled that statistical sampling cannot be used to apportion congressional seats but can be used for other purposes, such as legislative redistricting and, of course, doling out dollars. (Read "Why the 2010 Census Stirs Up Partisan Politics...
...stop the Taliban when they claim to be working in the name of Islam?" asked Yasmine Khan, program coordinator for the Female Human Rights Organization (FEHRO) for Swat, who recently fled to Islamabad after allegedly receiving death threats by Taliban militants. "Things are out of hand, and the government cannot control things." (See pictures of the front line in the war against the Taliban...