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  • in reply to: There Is Not Enough Money On Planet Earth #3175
    TINW
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    I can’t imagine what you are talking about when you say people are not buying homes. In the last 2 or 3 months, it’s been crazy. Just when I thought prices were coming to within 10% of bottom, all that pent up demand from the last 3 years has exploded. Open houses are mobbed. Any halfway reasonably priced house is going under contract within a few days, and many overpriced houses are too. Very depressing. It’s like these idiots learned nothing from the last 10 years. Of course a lot of them are bidding up the prices too high and many of the contracts fall thru, for reasons unknown to me. One would hope because the banks are telling these idiots that they have offered way more than the houses are worth, but that would mean someone in this country has learned something (I’m not optimistic). But even with cancellations, the decent houses are finding new offers very quickly. I assume this is all election year related to help the incumbents avoid a rout. But I’d say there are a few more years left in this bubble economy, at least.

    PS, this website is ridiculous with the number of times you are required to log in just to leave a comment. Last time I do *that*.

    in reply to: Disaster Capital Hits Europe #2249
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    “And if she doesn’t care, why should her compatriots? AP’s Geir Moulson writes that German public workers will get a 6.3% raise over 2 years, while their Greek and Spanish counterparts either lose their jobs or see their salaries cut by double digit percentages. Excuse me, but weren’t you guys in a monetary union together? In view of that attitude, why would the Spanish care about Germans any longer? They might waant to consider staying home for the summer holidays.”

    What in the world are you going on about at the end there? The best thing the Germans could do at this point would be to ratchet up wage inflation so the south can become more competive. 6% over 2 years is nothing, not even a fraction of what is needed, and yet it sounds like you are implying that the germans should be accepting austerity in solidarity with the south.

    in reply to: $270 Billion In US Student Loans Are Delinquent #2216
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    Why in the world does TAE continue link to or quote that nonsensical rightwing crank (e.g. “taxes = theft”), Zerohedge/Dyler Turden? All you’re doing is attracting and validating his braindead trolls.

    You couldn’t find someone reputable to quote on the student loan issue?

    in reply to: Prediction is Very Hard, Especially About the Future #1788
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    Wow. defending “the Jews” against a remark that was directed at the government of Israel by shifting the blame onto the world’s poor, powerless, elderly and sick who you consider parasites using baseless rightwing propaganda. I’m sure Herr Doktor Goebbels would agree you are quite a mensch.

    Apparently even Jews who are insufficiently zionist are forbidden to criticize the fatherAbrahamland anymore, so I’ll just shut my goy mouf. Doesn’t really matter what the rest of us think anyway. The whole subject of Israel can be summed up with one phrase: not going to end well.

    PS. This bit was so perfect: “Obama was a little better choice last time since he neutralized any resistance of the dumbass trendy liberals, who couldn’t see past his complexion and ability to walk and chew gum at the same time. They never heard his campaign slogan, “Chains We Can Believe In”, clearly.”

    I’ve been saying more or less the same thing for over 4 years about Mr Soaring Rhetoric. Those liberals don’t seem so trendy anymore, but they still look at me in amazement when I tell them Obama is not a liberal and his sole purpose is to disempower liberals from any influence in his party. They still think he’s just a nice, idealistic man who has been unfortunately but inevitably compromised by power (darnit, happens to the best of them!). They even believe there might be a bit of truth to it when he gets called a socialist.

    I guess the dumbshits deserve what they get. But how shameful it will be to be stacked like cordwood along with such fuckwits for future generations to gawk at.

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