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...onto the next. Halifax Financial Services, one of the nation's leading home-mortgage firms, calculates that property worth $680 billion will change hands between now and 2020 - about 10% of the total housing stock in the nation and the largest transfer of housing wealth in British history. The impact is so big because the baby boomers have transformed home ownership: about 70% of households now own their own homes, more than double the 31% that did in 1946, according to Halifax, a subsidiary of the financial-services group HBOS. The firm reckons the inheritance-tax threshold should be raised...
...Because the Iranian system comprises ministries with overlapping mandates and security apparatuses that operate independently, it's hard to say whether this is a government-wide crackdown or whether some officials are just feeling emboldened by Ahmadinejad's conservatism. Nonetheless, the tone is being set on high--and the impact is being felt throughout society...
...These are challenging times, and they're difficult times, and they're straining the psyche of our country." --GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, on the Iraq war's domestic impact...
...that volunteering adds up--the total economic value last year was estimated to be nearly $150 billion--and the impact is expected to grow as the population ages. "We're less concerned about baby boomers stepping up than we are with nonprofits being ready to receive them," says Tess Scannell, director of Senior Corps...
...What do you hope to achieve with Iraq for Sale? Do you really think you can have any impact on what's going on with...