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Santa Barbara Foreclosures
by Entitlemented on 8 May 2015   Posted 9 years ago
Gents/Ladies, Notices that there is a rather large spike in foreclosures near where I live, up about 1000% http://www.zillow.com/homes/ma Do you think this is the banks that have held ...

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Countrywide and HUD
by Entitlemented on 4 May 2015   1 comment, latest 9 years ago
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ Countrywide Is First Mortgage Lender to Voluntarily Agree to Fair Lending Goals with HUD PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The nation's largest mortgage lender and servicer, Countrywide ...

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Failure of Keynesnian Policys to Keep Jobs, Create Sensible Loan Policies
by Entitlemented on 29 Apr 2015   94 comments, latest 9 years ago
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pa Yes, it did. We use exogenous variation in banks incentives to conform to the standards of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) around regulatory exam dates to trace out ...

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2000 year old advice on Capitol Investment
by Entitlemented on 20 Jan 2015   Posted 9 years ago
The Parable of the Bags of Gold 14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. ...

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Freedom of Speech, Deleting Blog Posts citing difference of opinion
by Entitlemented on 19 Jan 2015   Posted 9 years ago
Someone deleted blogs today: I kept some because freedom of opinion is American: 23 threads 660 comments Goleta, CA Update Profile 21 7:22pm Mon 19 Jan 2015 Share Quote ...

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Consumption Tax to normalize GINI curve?
by Entitlemented on 7 Nov 2014   2 comments, latest 9 years ago
"Gates shares Piketty’s goal of spreading wealth, yet he doesn’t want to discourage the uber wealthy (like Gates) who are taking risks, investing in value-creating businesses, and helping the ...

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Why the low Cg?
by Entitlemented on 6 Nov 2014   5 comments, latest 9 years ago
After the 2010 elections, there was gloating about. It lasted for weeks, months. Democrats it appeared, had a high Coefficient of Gloating (Cg). Why the low Cg for Republicans? ...

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Atlas Shrugging?
by Entitlemented on 27 Oct 2014   15 comments, latest 9 years ago
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ When the Obama administration announced new rules last month aimed at making so-called corporate inversions less profitable, it was far from clear just how successful they would be ...

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Freedom of Censorship
by Entitlemented on 6 Oct 2014   1 comment, latest 10 years ago
Wow, Cnn pulled the video. http://us.cnn.com/2014/10/06/s This is Fox News Fault!

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How to handle Pandemics
by Entitlemented on 3 Oct 2014   11 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com The regulations, proposed in 2005 during the Bush administration amid fears of avian flu, would have given the federal government additional powers to detain sick airline passengers and ...

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FACTA compared to Roman Empire
by Entitlemented on 25 Sep 2014   Posted 10 years ago
http://nomadcapitalist.com/201 Justinian I oversaw a Byzantine empire that wanted to capture the glory of ancient Rome, not others’ money. Today, new IRS penalties, capital controls, and FATCA mean Americans ...

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Why did the Middle Class Disapear?
by Entitlemented on 23 Sep 2014   2 comments, latest 10 years ago
People, to net it down, the US had 20+% of jobs in manufacturing in 1980. Now we have 320M people with $700B and have science R&D

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Free Pot for those who will vote for Democrats
by Entitlemented on 4 Sep 2014   5 comments, latest 10 years ago
http://www.foxnews.com/politic Weed welfare?  Thats what the Berkeley City Council in California has unanimously approved, ordering medical marijuana dispensaries to donate 2 percent of their stash to patients making less ...

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Hillary: Pragmatic, Centrist, or running for election?
by Entitlemented on 12 Aug 2014   1 comment, latest 10 years ago
http://politicalticker.blogs.c Hillary Clinton reached out to President Barack Obama on Tuesday to tell him that headline-grabbing comments she made about his foreign policy were not meant as a political ...

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"Bolshevik" who is "taking cues from Lenin"
by Entitlemented on 4 Aug 2014   1 comment, latest 10 years ago
http://mediamatters.org/resear Jim Cramer has repeatedly characterized President Obama and congressional Democrats as Russian communists intent on "rampant wealth destruction," claiming Obama is "taking cues from Lenin" and using terms ...

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Putin visiting Socialist/Communist Countries
by Entitlemented on 12 Jul 2014   Posted 10 years ago
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07 Cuba was the first stop on Putin's Latin American tour, which will take him to Argentina and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the World Cup final game on ...

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When HDs Crash, does it erase Emails at the Receive End?
by Entitlemented on 23 Jun 2014   34 comments, latest 10 years ago

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JDs versus Engineers
by Entitlemented on 10 Feb 2014   34 comments, latest 10 years ago
Most of us agree that there has been bubbles, but most of us cannot agree why they start, why efforts to recognize them get thwarted, and why bad policies ...

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Usery Loans in Roman Empire
by Entitlemented on 7 Jan 2014   Posted 10 years ago
Near the End of the Roman Empire, funny types of loans sprung forth, very similar to subprime loans, called usery. from Montesquieu - http://www.constitution.org/cm ______________________________ In the year of ...

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Full Option Science System
by Entitlemented on 9 Nov 2013   8 comments, latest 10 years ago
At our local Elementary School, they are commencing the Full Option Science System. Last year however, the Principle talked to parents extensively about the schools dedicated Science Class. The ...

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Affordable Boat Act of 2014
by Entitlemented on 4 Nov 2013   4 comments, latest 10 years ago
The U.S. government has just passed a new law called: "The affordable boat act" declaring that every citizen MUST purchase a new boat, by April 2014. These "affordable" boats ...

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Schiller as Bubble Czar, consultant to Fed
by Entitlemented on 16 Oct 2013   2 comments, latest 11 years ago
Do we need a financial Bubble Czar? Would a pragmatist be good for the USA, help rein in the distortions caused by Wall St., CDOs, FHA, Freddie, Fannie, the ...

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Synopsis of Housing Crises
by Entitlemented on 13 Oct 2013   Posted 11 years ago
Found an interesting summary of dates, timelines of the GSE bad behavior, and a set of coupled politial entities each highly corrupt; http://tjhancock.wordpress.com #housing

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Red Brain, Blue Brain
by Entitlemented on 28 May 2013   Posted 11 years ago
http://www.plosone.org/article Although the risk-taking behavior of Democrats (liberals) and Republicans (conservatives) did not differ, their brain activity did. Democrats showed significantly greater activity in the left insula, while Republicans ...

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Collateralized / Synthesized Securities
by Entitlemented on 18 Mar 2013   Posted 11 years ago
The issue about CDOs and MBS, is that they were sold as collateralized, but then later "sorry, we meant uncollateralized".... because of the thinning of the colateral. Should we ...

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The US leads in Lawyers
by Entitlemented on 18 Jan 2013   Posted 11 years ago
The US lead in Lawyers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L But all Manufacturing, Science, and Technology is fleeting. Whats the long term trend? Whats the implication for America?

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Economic Growth and Investment
by Entitlemented on 28 Nov 2012   1 comment, latest 11 years ago
http://news.investors.com/1121 Anyone who thinks that President Obama's economic policies will spur strong growth should consider U-Haul rates between California and Texas. Renting a 20-foot truck one-way from San Francisco ...

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CRA Advocates Forced end of Glass Stegal
by Entitlemented on 19 Nov 2012   1 comment, latest 11 years ago
Looks like Clinton, Dodd, bullied Gramm into the Glass Stegal changes in the late 1990s. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10

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Page not found : The Sundries Shack
by Entitlemented on 3 Oct 2011   Posted 13 years ago
http://www.sundriesshack.com/2 #housing

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Germany is model of stability in Europe
by Entitlemented on 20 Sep 2011   Posted 13 years ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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