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More important than absolute prices, though, is how they relate to what people earn. To gauge housing affordability, the data shop Fiserv compares the cost of houses with household income. By that count, homes nationwide at the end of March were only 7% more expensive than they were in 2000, before the bubble. In some markets - including Phoenix, Atlanta, Las Vegas and San Jose, Calif. - they were actually cheaper. In a way that they haven't in a very long time, home prices are starting to make economic sense...
...wasn't even retail in the 19th or early 20th century. The banks that were capable of doing the most lending to individuals didn't actually do it. We had to wait until Bank of America, for instance, got into business and a lot of the companies like Household Finance that started making consumer loans for this thing to actually warm...
While Seoul's project may help women "worry less about harassment or violence," Chang says, "the question remains about how to share the household chores and responsibilities" so that women can more freely enter - and stay - in the labor market. Eunyoung Cho, a 25-year-old who will be leaving Seoul this fall to pursue a degree in economics at the University of California, Davis, also questions its efficacy, saying the project seems more political than personal. "The policies make the citizens feel that their mayor is doing something, but they do not feel the changes in their lives...
...Chrysler may be on their last legs - but small, visionary startup companies like Aptera Motors, Fisker Automotive, Tesla Motors and Bright Automotive are starting to sell their cool, cutting-edge, battery-powered cars, and a decade from now any one of them might be the household name that epitomizes our 21st century industrial rebirth. (I just drove in an Aptera. It looks like an awesome Jetsons vehicle, plugs into the wall, drives like a dream, goes 100 miles on a charge, costs under $30,000 - and I want...
...Then there is conservative Republican Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who has announced she will be filling in only the number of people in her household and no other information since she doesn't trust the government to use it responsibly. (Technically, doing so would break a federal law.) In a nice twist, the state of Minnesota itself is rallying its residents to send in their forms, since shifting populations nationwide may mean the loss of a Minnesota seat in the House. The Minnesota Complete Count Committee will be in full force at the state fair this summer, handing out buttons...