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100k Income in a 800k House

Apr

5

2004

the family economy | Metafilter references an article in the Washington Monthly discussing whether or not we’re in a housing bubble right now. bq. Truth is, in most of the country there’s no housing bubble. Perhaps the crucial ratio from which economists determine whether housing markets are out of whack is the ratio of home ...

No More Copying TV Programs

Mar

4

2004

Losing Control of Your TV – Indeed, Hollywood was always set up to be one of the winners of the home technology revolution. What would have been different if the movie industry had won in its lawsuit against Sony is that the revolution in camcorders, amateur video productions, and independent moviemakers never would have happened. ...

Senators Can’t be Elected President?

Feb

20

2004

Edwards Notes Differences on Issue of World Trade – Mark Sanford, who is the Republican governor of South Carolina and who has pushed the Bush administration to be tougher on China’s trade policies, said, “Trade, in fact, is a surprisingly bipartisan issue [ “(extlink)NYTimes”:http://www.nytimes.com ] That last qoute seems to put a strong point behind ...

Outsourcing is a Fad

Feb

19

2004

Getting to ” Very Satisfied” – Lewis and Brzykcy, fortysomething sisters with otherwise normal lives as a training consultant and a management consultant, respectively, in suburban Illinois, decided to channel their own mounting dissatisfaction as customers into a full-flung survey of almost 500 retailers. At home-improvement stores, gas stations, and fast-food restaurants, the sisters shopped, ...

Disposable DVDs

Jan

29

2004

Disposable DVDs get thumbs-down from buyers – The disposable DVD concept has never been a popular one with most technology-oriented folk, who generally prefer the concept of ownership of their physical property over that of continuously renting it — for example, witness the reservations many have over the DRM restrictions in the iTunes Music Store. ...