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Nevada has been especially hard hit because it's one of the states with the sharpest rise in malpractice costs. But those costs are climbing nationwide. According to one study, from 1999 to 2000 the median plaintiff's jury award in medical-malpractice cases increased 43%, from $700,000 to $1 million. Last year the MIIX Group, an insurer in 24 states, saw 26 claim payments of more than $1 million. This year it has faced an average of one new $1 million-plus claim every week...
...Percentage the median pay for CEOs at 350 of the largest U.S companies rose...
Real estate is an incredibly steady investment. Not once since the 1960s, when records were first kept, has the nation's median home price declined in a calendar year. There have been plenty of regional busts, as in Texas following the '70s oil boom and in New England during the late '80s. Yet overall, home prices have risen an average 6.3% annually. Part of the appeal is that even when supply and demand turn sour, home economics makes sense. Mortgage interest is deductible, and when they sell their home, a couple can walk away with $500,000 of their gain...
...true that home values have been rising faster than family income for years, a trend that can't last. Since 1990, family income has grown 3.8% a year while home prices have risen at a 4.5% clip. The median home now sells for 2.8 times the median family income--up from 2.6 in 1990. But this ratio has historically ranged from 2.5 to 3, so the current reading puts housing squarely in the fair-value zone...
...argument difficult to accept. That's because in the past few years the hottest markets have been rebounding from declines in the early 1990s. Measuring from trough to peak will always show unsustainable growth. A better snapshot comes from measuring from peak to peak. Take San Francisco again. The median home price has surged to $482,000 as of the first quarter of this year, from $254,000 in 1995. That's an 11.3% average annual return, double the historical national average. Yet the median Bay-area price in 1989 was $261,000. A typical buyer at that time...