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Is this a two million dollar house or a four million dollar house?

In his NBER working paper, economist Arindrajit Dube examines the impact of California's AB 1228, which instituted a sector-wide $20/hour minimum wage for large fast-food chains. Key labor market findings from the study include: [1, 2] Wage Increases: The policy boosted average fast-food wages...

Sounds like a franchise owner and management problem. Carl’s has been gross since before the great recession. Record high beef prices certainly don’t help https://nypost.com/2026/05/18/business/carls-jr-crushed-by-californias-economic-climate-violence-stricken-workers/

Does Eric Trump traveling to China with his dad bother you? Personally, I think it’s good that at least one child is looking after his demented dad

He’s changing his story. First he said, “Yet these same media outlets were quiet when Obama did it; and ignorant people parrot these left-wing Democrat talking points not realizing the hypocrisy.” Then he said, “but quite a bit was written back during Obama's second term about him getting rid of...

You need at least six baths if you’re turning it into a boarding house, brothel or birth hotel

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/politics/pete-hegseth-falsehood-firings.html

Does Irvine let you buy multiple lots and build one big McMansion? What about multi-family units?

A lot of older homes are sold off market. I would find a real estate agent who does a transactions in the neighborhood you’re interested in because they know who who is looking to sell in the near future. Go to open houses and talk to them. There are usually two or three that stand out.

Buckets of cash that was mostly Iran’s money to begin with is preferable to spending $2 billion a day, destroying the environment, murdering school girls, crushing civilian infrastructure, burning through misiles, having allied defense systems destroyed, cutting off 20% of the world’s natural...

I doubt we the US would still be on an excusion in Iran if Harris had won. The first thing Trump and the Fox entertainer Christian Nationalist alcoholic did was purge JAG officers and any leadership that didn’t support his lunacy.

If I had a $3 million budget and was thinking of starting a family, I would be looking for something under $2 million in a neighborhood with young families. I wouldn’t want to buy in a neighborhood with empty houses whose owners live overseas or a block with rentals that changes tenants every...

If someone under the age of 35 (I’m assuming age based on no kids but wanting them later) is even considering a $3 million starter home, I don’t think money is an issue.