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Housing Regulator Wants to Throw the Drowning Poor an Anchor; Mish Alternative Proposal Now that home prices have recovered from the Great Financial Crisis to the point of being way overvalued again in many areas, a Housing Regulator Targets More Support for Poor Borrowers . The regulator for U.S
More: Bond Spread Blowout Revisited; Fred Data Error
Blowout in Some Corporate Bond Spreads; Bond Funds Post 3rd Week of Outflows Posted by Michael Shedlock at 2:01 AM Disclaimer: The content on this site is provided as general information only and should not be taken as investment advice. All site content, including advertisements, shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security or financial instrument, or to participate in any particular trading or investment strategy
BLS vs.Gallup Unemployment Rate – Massive Discrepancies The Gallup Daily U.S.
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Massive Fireball Explosions in Chinese Port City of Tianjin Kill 17; Video Footage, Images, Logistics, Reader Anecdotes A shipment of explosives went up in flames in the Chinese city of Tianjin. The Guardian reports least 17 Dead and Hundreds Injured
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MarketWatch reports Productivity Dry Spell Looks Worse in Latest Report The dry spell of productivity in this economic expansion is even worse than previously thought, according to new data released Tuesday. The average annual rate of productivity growth from 2007 to 2014 was revised down to 1.3% per year from the prior estimate of 1.4%, the Labor Department said Tuesday. This is well below the long-term rate of 2.2% per year from 1947 to 2014
In sunny Spain, Solar Energy Storage is Worse Than Nuclear Spillage Storing solar energy in a battery in Spain is more criminal than spilling radioactive waste. That’s the implied message written between the lines of a recently drafted law poised for fast-track approval by the government of Spain