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...next word would be, and then go from there. That was those early conventions, and then I began to get into a sort of stand-up routine. I'd change my act every six months or so, but I think everyone there had already heard them. And now apparently interest has revived as a result of the movie that J.J. Abrams made. This is the first convention I've been to in a long, long time. (See pictures of Star Trek's greatest villains...
...fight the downturn. As Peking University finance professor Michael Pettis says, China is "throwing everything including the kitchen sink'' at the problem. There is no question that as a result of the flood of financing, a lot of Chinese have jobs they otherwise wouldn't. But, as Grant's Interest Rate Observer, an influential Wall Street newsletter, points out in its latest issue, "Massive injections of money and credit ... are always bullish before they are bearish." The newsletter draws worrying parallels between China's current credit boom and the gush of lending that produced the U.S. housing bubble, the collapse...
Most online retailers try to interest customers in items similar to ones they've bought. Netflix offers "Movies Most Like ...," but the similarities can be baffling. Rent the Indian drama Fiza and you'll be pointed to Season 1 of Scrubs and the Bakker biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye. This is when I yearn for the guys behind the old Kim's counter. Not that every video-store clerk is a budding Quentin Tarantino, eager to point renters toward some arcane masterpiece from Italy or Hong Kong, but you do miss out on a face-to-face with...
...Washington Home Sales on the Upswing At last, some good news on the housing front. In June, sales of new U.S. one-family homes saw their strongest increase in more than eight years as buyers hurried to take advantage of bargain-basement prices, low interest rates and a federal tax credit for first-time homeowners. Home prices are still dropping, however, with the median June figure of $206,200 down 12% from $234,300 a year earlier. And with a huge backlog of unsold homes, analysts continue to disagree on whether the higher-than-expected increase signals a coming recovery...
...what would help him do his job, the thing he most wants from a lender when he sends in an application for a loan modification - asking for something like a reduced interest rate that could help keep a family in its home - is simple. "I just want to know someone is looking at it," he says. Often, that hasn't been the case. Banks simply don't call back...