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<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/15/MNBC19MVAP.DTL&type=realestate">Home prices' big role as crisis hit state hard</a> (09-14) 21:30 PDT -- The bankruptcy of Lehman Bros. reverberated with particular fury in California, where it helped deepen a recession...

The pain had driven me to go to the University of South California?s low-cost dental clinic. A dentist ? or perhaps a dental student ? glanced at my teeth and then flicked me in the cheek with his thumb and forefinger. I reeled in pain. But it seemed the problem was my sinuses, not my teeth. I...

<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f64a9e36-9da3-11de-9f4a-00144feabdc0.html">A confession from a home ownership advocate</a> The game of finding someone to pin the blame on for the US housing market collapse has gone on long enough. Are the bankers responsible? The analysts who didn?t see...

<a href="http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/3481157">Toxic ARMs Loans Are Still Owned By Banks: Don?t Buy The Optimistic Banking Sector Scenario</a> Option ARMs (adjustable rate loans) are the dubious name for a mortgage product which has caused financial destruction...

<img src="http://media.cdn-redfin.com/photo/53/bigphoto/110/90015110_0.jpg" alt="" /> <a href="http://www.redfin.com/CA/Ventura/436-Poli-St-93001/unit-203/home/4736406">436 E Poli St #203 Ventura, CA 93001</a> Price: $375,000 Beds: 2 Baths: 2 Sq. Ft.: 1,076 $/Sq...

<img src="http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/roflmfao.jpg" alt="" /> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/14/cities-home-prices-lifestyle-real-estate-homes-cities.html">Where Home Prices Are Likely To Rise </a> <blockquote>Though home prices in many areas still...

For anyone looking for a reasoned debate... <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/215291">The Case for Killing Granny</a> <blockquote>My mother wanted to die, but the doctors wouldn't let her. At least that's the way it seemed to me as I stood by her bed in an intensive-care unit at a...

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/business/economy/14bubble.html">Same Old Hope: This Bubble Is Different </a> This time is different. That?s what people argue every time a bubble inflates, and what they think every time they are chastened by its popping. But century after...

<img src="http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/images/uploads/200993/the-road-to-success.jpg" alt="" /> I came across this image today. I had a boss who used to have this on his wall. It is fantastic. I may blow up some wall-size ones.

I just received this email from a reader: <blockquote>Hello IHB, I'm a renter in San Jose. I work at a law firm as a counselor in waiting. One of my coworkers recently announced he was going to buy a condo. It's a new building, just recently thrown up, and he announced he was...

<a href="http://financemymoney.com/2009/09/option-arm-silent-bomb-189-billion-in-outstanding-option-arms-with-134-billion-recasting-in-2-years-94-percent-of-borrowers-made-minimum-payment/">Option ARM Silent Bomb: $189 Billion in Outstanding Option ARMs with $134 Billion Recasting in 2 Years. 94...

Have you ever watched the British Parliament on C-SPAN? The stuff they say to each other in the House of Commons is amazing. In this circumstance is was bad decorum. You just don't do that. An address from the President is not the House of Commons in Great Britain, and unless they want it...