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...like in my Expos class pool freshman year on the strength of six Elite Eights, two Final Fours, and UCLA in the title game. Oh yeah, I also picked Maryland to win the women’s tournament, a tournament of which I watched a grand total of zero games...
Then there were not so good times, like 2003 when I got zero Final Four teams, or that one day in the first round in 2005 when I watched TWO Final Four picks lose in big upsets. My feelings as I watched Syracuse stink it up against Vermont gave new meaning to the term “March Madness.” But the tourney should be a happy time for you and me. While we wait, I’m looking forward to the end of the regular college basketball season, including that of the Harvard team?...
...there is a ground zero for both problems, it is Texas, where I grew up and where my parents and brothers still live. About 1 in 4 Texans is uninsured, the highest rate in the country. The vast majority of the uninsured - 8 in 10 - live in households in which someone works, typically for a small business. But only 37% of Texas companies with fewer than 50 employees offer medical coverage...
...this for odds: If you have a house in Las Vegas, there's a 58% chance you owe more on your mortgage than the place is worth. Nevada, of course, is ground zero for the real estate bust - but it's hardly alone in having truckloads of "underwater" homeowners. As of December, 19.8% of mortgage holders nationwide had negative equity in their houses, according to a new report by loan-tracker First American CoreLogic. That tally, which takes into account both first and second mortgages, represents 8.3 million homeowners, 700,000 more than when the firm checked in September...
...capital - which makes no economic or financial sense," Touati says. "markets usually move in anticipation of the way the economy is changing. That situation is now reversed: markets are simply following economic changes - or more accurately, how they think the economy has changed. Their forward vision, therefore, is virtually zero...