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...raise as a result of the "stress test" process. That leaves the more important issue of what it means when the financial distress of the wealthy and nearly wealthy begins to look like the money problems of everyone else. The country counts on the rich for a large portion of it tax receipts. The new budget assumes that upper income households will pay an even larger part of their earnings each year from now on. (See pictures of things money...
...foreclosure data shows that many high-end homeowners are running out of resources for keeping their homes. That means the portion of the home market with the most expensive houses is beginning to collapse. If it follows the pattern of the rest of the sector, prices will correct downward quickly and brutally. The housing crisis will have moved to upper tier property which will push down overall home prices even more. Banks will take back more foreclosed houses. Those that they seize this time will just be larger and more opulent...
...Businesses across America and much of the rest of the world were changing travel schedules, considering bringing people back to their homes, and preparing, at the worst, to make plans in the event that some portion of their employees were out of work. (See pictures of swine flu hitting Mexico...
...also particularly troubling that, as per the seller’s stipulations, a large portion of the building would have to be set aside for “progressive social organizations,” a term that, while nebulous, connotes a certain ideological leaning the UC has no business promoting with its real estate. The UC is a body intended to represent Harvard’s entire undergraduate population, and no social space it attempts to create should ever alienate those students whose political views may not necessarily be classified as “progressive...
...among the best in their respective sport.The Harvard co-ed sailing team was given that chance this past weekend at the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association National Semifinals at the Fan Pier Boston. Facing light and shifty winds that created rather tricky conditions, the Crimson placed seventh in the western portion of the semifinals. Harvard was rewarded for its efforts with one of 18 spots in the ICSA/Gill National Dinghy Championships in San Francisco, Calif. from June 1-3, accomplishing its season-long goal of making nationals.“The first and foremost goal was to qualify...