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    How different cultures define a "great" home

    That's one nice house. It looks real solid, too. In California, that would be too much rubble to fall on you when the earthquake hits. Of course, if you want to freeze the moment you step outside your front door for 5 months of the year, and play tennis while fighting off mosquitoes in sticky...
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    Trading - Lessons from Stock Wizards

    If all traders had no real skill, and you put 1024 of them to work investing over 10 years, at the end of 10 years you would expect one of them to have had a perfect record of 10 up years. Try a million people with no skills, and you get a thousand who will pass the 10-year test, and 1 who...
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    Thanks PatientRenter! Here's the graph he made.

    <p>Roo,</p> <p>My source is Melissa, at <a href="http://www.melissadata.com/lists/ezlists/ezhomeowners.aspx">http://www.melissadata.com/lists/ezlists/ezhomeowners.aspx</a>. You can get any zip code you want.</p> <p> </p>
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    Thanks PatientRenter! Here's the graph he made.

    <p>Thx, ISB and Effen. (BTW, I abbreviate even more than ISB, Jan.) </p> <p>Yes, Trooper, the blue dots are 92614, and the maroon are 92604. (Per barely visible legend on the right.)</p> <p>Your guess is correct, ISB, the size of the dots represents the number of sales in a month. Until...
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    Cash Back to Buyers

    <p>You know what they say about the genie and the bottle.... Mortgage investors would have to suffer a bloodbath before there were strong enough laws and enforcement limiting cash back. Bear Stearns is not even close to enough. It would require serious losses at pension funds and other...
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