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...approval rates for car loans, everything else being equal. The $4,500 incentive sometimes was doubled by manufacturer incentives. Even if you have less-than-perfect credit, if you put $9,000 down on a $25,000 vehicle, you have a good chance of getting approved. We also saw the captive finance companies becoming more flexible during the promotion in their approvals...
...first batch of numbers instilling hope that we've arrived at a bottom shows that house prices are beginning to creep back up. The S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices in 20 cities saw a 1.4% gain between May and June. That's only the second time the index has risen since the summer of 2006 (the other time was the month before). Once you adjust the data for seasonality - the fact that houses tend to sell for more money in the warmer months - the increase in July was actually the first since May 2006. Home-price data from...
...recovered records, overheard conversations and diaries to track down various works. What was their main tactic? They would go around and interrogate people. They would look for museum directors and curators and ask where pieces of art were. They'd hear vague things like, "Well, the last time we saw it the armies were going east," or "The Nazis came and said 'We're taking these works to safeguard them' " - a very utilitarian word to describe theft and robbery. Eventually they started finding people who knew things, and those people would send them to see someone else who knew something...
Wischmeyer saw this firsthand as a medical resident in 1999, when a fellow student was found dead from a propofol overdose, the syringe still stuck in his arm. Since then he's followed cases of professionals, and a handful of non-professionals, who have abused the drug. Even the professionals he has studied have high mortality rates with the drug, with a third of the abusers dying from it. The small pool of non-professionals fare worse. "I've never found a non-medical person abusing this drug that has ever lived," says Wischmeyer. Propofol's potency leaves very little...
Many German commentators saw the government announcement as little more than an political p.r. gimmick. Still, the liberal Süddeutsche Zeitung saw the announcement as a sign of how technology once considered a pipe dream has moved firmly into the mainstream of public debate. "Electric cars are no longer a topic for madmen but for the government. A million of these cars should be zipping along German roads by 2020. The government is instigating a revolution," the paper wrote last week. (Read "Electric Cars: China's Power Play...