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Friday Links Saved 650,000 Jobs

October 30, 2009

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Home appraisal system could be dustbin-bound – The Washington Post A Bailout For Pensions? – The Atlantic In case you didn’t know (and I didn’t) there’s a government body out there called the “Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation.” In a similar way to how the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation steps in when banks fail, the PBGC [...]

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SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?

October 30, 2009

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The song by CLASH, with the same name as this article, may have been a hit back in 1981, when they asked the question that seems to be the question of today, “Should I Stay or Should I Go?“ Today, however, the question takes on a more serious tone than the confused singer in his [...]

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Urban infill on a micro scale

October 30, 2009

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Though the Sacramento real estate market as a whole has taken a serious hit to home prices since the peak prices of August 2005, the urban core has largely held its values and remains out of reach for many in the region looking for an urban lifestyle. Advocates of more affordable market rate housing in [...]

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Housing Prices Rise in San Francisco and other Major Cities

October 30, 2009

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Home prices rose for the third straight month in August, a key ingredient for a broad and sustained housing recovery was reported in an article in SFGate . The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index of 20 major cities climbed 1 percent from July . The index, released today, show a change in the real [...]

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Facebook Changes…are you as confused as I am?

October 30, 2009

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If you haven’t noticed the Facebook changes this past week, you must not be addicted like so many people are to Facebook now! I’m not sure what Facebook was thinking when they made these changes, but most of us don’t like them. There are now 2 feeds at the top of your page…News Feed and [...]

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