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Yeah, but those other schools get to be selective about who they enroll. La Quinta, as far as I know, just takes anyone who lives in school boundaries.

For me, the impressive one on that list is La Quinta HS. It draws from some neighborhoods that aren't exactly prime and puts up some great numbers.

No, no, no! You can't invest in a leveraged ETF long term. Decay will kill you. They're for short term trades only. Basically a bet the market is going to head in one direction.

I looked up 6 houses from that list at random and 5 were listed as active and one was listed as off market but last sold 2005. I'm just a noob who uses Redfin and don't have access to all the fancy schmancy realtor data you guys do, but is Redfin really that delayed? Or perhaps I'm...

For those of you with iPhones, check out the free Redfin app if you haven't already. The GPS integration makes it a fun app to try out when you drive somewhere new. Just turn on the app and check out what the MLS listings are in the area you happen to be in. I know a lot of people on this...

I have no actual connection to any area schools, but I used to root for UCLA every year and every year they would screw it up. That 1998 loss to Miami...ouch. That really really hurt. I root for Pac-10 teams in general so when USC started doing well again, I started rooting for them to...

If we really do see TIC return underwater property, what kind of signal does that send to strapped homeowners who are underwater? 2008/2009 will mark the triumph of moral hazard.

It's interesting that I personally tend to think highly of Foothill High because I've run into some of their grads in HYPSM circles. Funny that someone should be afraid that their kids might attend such a "bad" school. Back in my college days, I also had a disproportionately high opinion of...

This doesn't affect any of the FCB's in Irvine who do "creative tax reporting" though. But then the FCBs in OC are usually successful business people who didn't abuse debt in the first place so I'm not too bothered by their tax evasion.

The Economist has been predicting a bank blowup in China for years and so far the government's been able to keep it from happening. They have control over their economy that our own government would drool over.

Moreno Valley is a sh*thole, but those are the places the housing crisis hit the hardest. Like if you were writing a story about the dot.com crash, you would probably go to Sunnyvale and not Burbank. Nobody would really want to read an article about what the aerospace and defense coallpse in...

FV has a really good location as everyone has said. There's a Costco there, a Fry's, and some of the best Japanese restaurants in Orange County. Not to mention all the great Vietnamese restaurants in Little Saigon just a hop and a skip away. Close to the beach yet really convenient to the...

<a href="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/08/fitch-dramatic-decrease-in-cure-rates.html">http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/08/fitch-dramatic-decrease-in-cure-rates.html</a> Single digit cure rates sure seem to point to a surge. We know there's a massive number of NODs. We...

That FiOS isn't available in Irvine is a major disappointment. A casual computer user might not really notice the difference, but I don't know a single techie who doesn't drool at the thought of 50 Mbps down and 20 Mbps(!!!!) up. FiOS is fiber right into your home. It's the right way to...

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Question for the experienced traders. I've been sitting on my cash a long time and my forays into the market to do short-term trades haven't done well because I'm too bearish and always freaked out by the possibility of a crash so I never hold anything long enough to do anything. I've bought a...

With the way the government is throwing money around, I don't think there's any doubt they'll extend benefits some more. I can't imagine any politican who would speak up against extended benefits.