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Chinese Consulate and their CIA-equivalent has been extremely active in organizing the SF Parade to show hand.
They have a culinary institute too?
sorry, show down. Yeah, if they advertised free gourmet food I would have gone.
I couldn't find the press release on the Fed site, but this would be welcome news (unless it means that they've run out of "acceptable collateral") :
Wall Street bond dealers bid for less than the $50 billion of Treasuries that the Federal Reserve offered at an auction today, a sign that strains in credit markets may be easing.
The New York Fed's third weekly auction under the new Term Securities Lending Facility drew $34 billion in bids for the available securities, for a bid-to-cover ratio of 0.68, the central bank said on its Web site today. The two previous auctions of $75 billion and $25 billion had bid-to-cover ratios of more than 1.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aW6E8UIovljk
Claire and others,
Did you notice that there is 25 new listings in Mountain View since last Friday, but the total listings barely has budget from ~160? Me thinks the local realtors are heavily pruning old/expired/unsold listings to keep the total from rising.
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A reader named John sent me a bunch of data on foreclosures, which I posted here:
http://patrick.net/housing/contrib/foreclosures_percent.html">http://patrick.net/housing/contrib/foreclosures_percent.html
The data says that there are 74 houses in some stage of foreclosure in Palo Alto, or 55% of all the houses for sale.
Another reader, named Carl, object that:
I forwarded the objection to John, who replied:
#housing