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...Burton's" was actually Henry Selick's; he directed the film under Burton's supervision. Selick next directed James and the Giant Peach, which managed to improve on the Roald Dahl children's book, and Monkeybone, a pretty frantic mix of live-action and animation. All these films owe less to the chipper confections of Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks than to Euro-cartoonery like The Triplets of Belleville and the work of Czech animator Jiri Trnka...
...house prices, that much is true, but the swoon has caused additional problems as it traps many flailing borrowers in their homes. Simply selling your home when you can no longer afford it is often not an option at a time when some 18% of mortgage holders owe more than their house is worth...
...folks reported (using figures from the Federal Reserve), the value of everybody's assets was $56.5 trillion. The value of our liabilities (public and private) was $56.4 trillion. Given what has happened to real estate and the stock market since Sept. 30, it seems certain that we now owe more than we are worth...
Claim Your House as a Home Office Geithner spent the past few years as head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and made nearly $398,000 in 2007. Hook estimates that before deductions Geithner could owe as much as $130,000 in federal and state taxes for 2008, assuming his income last year was the same. On top of that, he will owe nearly $19,000 in property taxes on his 3½-bedroom home in Larchmont, N.Y. - an upscale suburb north of Manhattan - where he lives with his wife and two children...
...county issued 80 new home permits, down from an average of almost 500 permits a month in 2007. Housing prices have deflated with a deafening groan. Keith Schwer, who runs the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, estimates that 50% of homeowners owe more than what their home is worth. Perhaps the only positive note is that housing prices have returned to more reasonable levels. "We're getting back into the affordability range," Schwer says. "The only problem is we don't have credit to buy them, and we're losing jobs...