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...production costs are a key incentive for shooting in Moscow. It's a famously expensive city, but cheap Russian labor can make a positive impact on the bottom line. "The unions in Hollywood are worse than the Russian mob," says Minkovski, who reckons it's 25% cheaper to make a film like You and I in Moscow than...
...foreclosures are scheduled for auction at county courthouses nationwide; so far this year there have been 440,000, according to RealtyTrac. Investors once lured by the prospect of flipping houses at ever inflating prices are now (if they sold in time) focused on scooping up distressed houses on the cheap and turning them into rentals. "There's a whole crowd of people who say, 'Wow, what an opportunity,'" says William Bronchick, president of the Colorado Association of Real Estate Investors...
However you get your hands on a house, it's important to remember that foreclosures are often cheap for a reason, like having a cracked foundation. Says Terry Dunkin, president of the Appraisal Institute: "Just because it's priced less than other houses in the neighborhood doesn't mean it's a great deal...
...group-hug 1969 atmospherics do not come at a 1969 price. Ranging as high as $300,000, the houses aren't cheap, in part because of rising land prices in the Ithaca area. Draped in vegetation and occasionally sporting solar panels, the homes are Norman Rockwell meets Al Gore. "We were drawn by the fact that this was an environmentally based community," says Alison Cohn, 36, watching from her front porch as her 4-year-old son Asher digs in a nearby sandbox. "But it's when I see how much my kids love it here that I really know...
...entered companies en masse, lived together, drank together, quite often married one another and retired together. This close-knit culture, which was virtually national labor policy, was widely credited for Japan's meteoric rise. But it all ended when the country hit the skids in the 1990s. Threatened by cheap labor and more efficient business models, Japanese companies began adopting American management concepts such as merit-based pay and job competition. "The Japanese equated globalism with not just the American way of business but with rejecting their past," says Jun Ishida, CEO of Tokyo-based business consultancy Will...