Word: markets
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...sale in the U.S. have had at least one price reduction, with an average discount of 10% off the original asking price, according to an analysis by the listings site Trulia.com. The analysis shows that of the nation's 50 largest cities, Jacksonville, Fla., is the most marked-down market, with 39% of houses there having undergone a price chop...
...have to go to Florida, though, to be reminded that if you're in the housing market right now, the thing you want to be is a buyer. Marked-down properties account for more than 30% of listings in 15 other cities, including Boston, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Honolulu and Tucson, Ariz. Even that may be an understatement of the discounts that are to be had: houses that were taken off the market and then relisted at a lower price weren't included in the analysis. (See how Americans are spending...
...Position limits at some threshold might be a good idea, but they must apply to all institutions - especially those dealing with physical oil. And they cannot be too small, or else loopholes will become viable means to corner the market, for instance, by using subsidiaries...
...hands of Americans and into those of foreign oil suppliers. Do we want the government punishing some financial investors while letting others - the ones who have the strongest motive to raise prices - continue to do business as usual? That's what could happen if the government regulates the oil market...
...opium-producing flowers to encouraging different crops. But that's quite a challenge: poppies are easy to grow and net four times as much money per acre as wheat. So farmers will need new cash crops to replace the poppies and newly built roads to get such goods to market without paying bribes along the way. The best soldiers in the world can't manage every step of that process, which is why Karl Eikenberry, the new U.S. ambassador in Kabul and a retired Army lieutenant general who served twice in Afghanistan, says, "The military can help set the conditions...