Ways to view comments on this thread:
Dead simple, read only interface at: http://users.thelink.net/bobn/CR
CRC-like interface at http://realize.org/cr/crcizer/
Full Blown Interface at http://www.hoocoodanode.org/
For live chat, join us in IRC.
To access IRC with firefox, install the chatzilla add-on and go to irc://irc.realize.org:9996/calculatedrisk.
Or set your IRC client for server irc.realize.org port 9996 and /join #calculatedrisk.
Feed back via bobn
I've said it before. Jim is the only Realtor I'd buy a house from.
He's actually the only one I dont label a realwhore....
True story....
Congrats to Jim on this recent fame ! !
(Check out his blog on hog-tying teen bando's)
Hi,
Just so that you know.. WSJ has a very good iPhone/ iTouch app for free. Why pay 100$ just to browse the print version of their newspaper, when you can get the important stuff for free.
WSJ and Bloomberg have the best iPhone/ iTouch apps.. and they are free. I have used the Bloomberg app for almost a year now.. The WSJ also looks promising.
Now back to lambasting banksters!
6 Bathrooms? WTF?
I am not surprised that he will be on TV. There was an article about him in the L.A. Times recently; it mentioned how his clients love him because he is unafraid to mention the downside, if any, of the places he shows. He is doing alright in a down market!!!! We need more like him.
That is going to do wonders for baby boomers 401ks and pension plans.. they are saved...
Who are they going to sell them to when they want to cash out?
___________________________________________________________________________
US Stocks Rise; Nasdaq Hits Highest Level Since Nov
By Rob Curran
Last update: 5:05 p.m. EDT April 16, 2009
(Updated with additional company information, in the sixth through eighth, and 10th through 19th paragraphs.)
U.S. stocks surged Thursday, and the Nasdaq Composite hit its highest level since November, as investors bet on an economic recovery by buying technology and consumer stocks such as Google, Nokia, Walt Disney and Hewlett-Packard.
American residential real estate:
Junk made for punks by lunks where now the bandos bunk.
(Come round later, they're in the basement cooking up some gunk.)
That ocean view was priceless too.... ROTFLOL! ! ! The bus yard ! ! ! WAHHOOO! ! ! ! 1
Lucifer, I agree with your rant a few days ago. You cant get your money out of the market unless someone wants to buy it.... The demographics / future redemption possibilities are truly scary !
repost (OT, but what the hell, it is a Jim the Realtor thread)-
Unless we go BK suddenly, something I don't expect to happen for quite a while, as the rest of the world still loves the dollar.
I think this is the most interesting question to watch. We are going to have a lot fewer dollars recycled by trade partners over the next couple years, so even if they love the dollar they are going to have fewer of them to spend on Treasurys. Tax revenues are cliff diving. On budget outlays are soaring. Social Security is on the verge of becoming a net drag. And, the balance sheet of the Fed et al are up to the brim with bad mortgage debt.
I think it's a recipe for continuing excitement. But I haven't come to any conclusions about exactly when the cake will be baked.
As far as being irritated, no doubt. As a closet optimist, I'm hoping more of my favorite commenters will slowly show back up now that the commenting system is really good.
The comments on the ABC page are hilarious. A bunch of realtors claiming they are offended by Nightline impugning their character by referring to Jim as the last honest realtor.
Jim the Realtor should go on tour to AZ and FL.
I'd buy that DVD.
--
The Zombie Apocalypse begins when U3 hits 15%
allright MLM- here is my response:
Long term, I am not an optimist, I just realized that enough was thrown at the mess to stop the deathspiral.
As for the new commenting system, I will use it for a while and then decide. I also got distracted at work as things have gotten pretty hairy.
But for now, we are going to be shuffling along in quite the boring time. The stimulus will work through the system, and folks will decide the world didn't really end last November, and then, well, slow climb up from the bottom. Reregulation will cause wall street a ton of heartburn as the winners will not be most of the current banks of large size, unless they can truly deliver consumer service at *low* cost.
The dollar is a puzzle, but the answer will not be found here- with the election of the dems we will regenerate some percentage of our peak consumption, but we will never on a per capita surpass it again in real terms. Now, in nominal, well, your guess is as good as mine. The dollar is ultimately now far more important to our national economy than most realize, since so much is imported, higher prices transmit nearly instantly as we saw with higher energy last year. The days of years lag in production through consumption price increases is now long past.
In other words the current setup is basically a transition, but to what state?
Someday this war's gonna end...
Further, I like that Jim notices that a reasonably priced house (169k is reasonable in Socal) will go fast. Compared to the insanity of the last few years, it is positively refreshing.
So GOOG grew earnings 7% year over year. I think a fair multiple for that growth would be about 10, so the stock should be about 160. Hmmm.
I feel sorry for the vast majority of idiots who bought into the whole scam..
The scam was..
1. The west reached its present state by merit rather than chance events.
2. Having reached there we can stay there forever.
3. Factors like below replacement levels of population growth and increased automation will not upset the old assumptions.
4. Investments will grow at 8% over the long term, inflation will be below 2%, house prices will go up forever.
5. We will be able to go to poorer non-white countries for anything, make them do anything we want and get erections from seeing their poverty.
6. We can maintain living standard differentials between the west and the rest forever.
and the biggest whopper
7. We control this show..
Hubris- my favorite sin!
GGP couldn't roll their debt; hence BK.
What other huge entity MUST roll debt while issuing new debt in a climate where debt buyers are going on strike?
No, I don't see bouncing along a bottom in some market doldrum.
"I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth."
j - i dont have the article but it was in the NARReits's monthly publication. it was about the CMBS spigot. it turned off mind 08. just stopped. but what hasnt stopped is the CMBS debt that comes due over the course of the next year. It is almost half of the total CMBS debt outstand. I think it was on the order of 120BB out of 300BB (again figures are from memory)
anyway. its going to be fugly, capital F
.....................
The dollar will not collapse because people will lose faith in it.
It will ultimately collapse because it will not be usable. It will not buy what it could, not because it has lost value, but because what it could buy does not exist anymore.
_______________________________________________
The dollar is a puzzle, but the answer will not be found here- with the election of the dems we will regenerate some percentage of our peak consumption, but we will never on a per capita surpass it again in real terms. Now, in nominal, well, your guess is as good as mine. The dollar is ultimately now far more important to our national economy than most realize, since so much is imported, higher prices transmit nearly instantly as we saw with higher energy last year. The days of years lag in production through consumption price increases is now long past.
________________________________________________
j -
If you're talking the USA, then debt buyers have most definitely not gone on strike (yet). As far a rolling it over, the path of least resistance for the FCB's who own a whole lot of what is outstanding, is to just re-up. I think the it's the new issuance, and who's going to buy it, that will be "interesting".
Global savings are not infinite. The U.S. comprises about a quarter of the global economy as measured by GDP; by at least some measures, for the U.S. Treasury to borrow $2 trillion a year then a significant percentage of total global savings must be diverted to Treasuries.
Recall that virtually every other government on the planet is also busy selling trillions of dollars of their own debt to fund their own deficit spending, and that private debt for new mortgages, corporate debt, etc. sucks up additional funds. It's not hard to foresee a point at which newly issued debt exceeds the available savings/surplus capital.
At that point, a competition for available funds begins, with the "winner" being the borrower who pays the highest interest rate and offers the most safety/security.
With the global economy in a complete freefall, global savings are also in a steep decline. Just as the demand for capital leaps, the supply of surplus capital plummets. That's the long-term trend.
When he laughs surveying the bus yard... sorry, it's kinda creepy. Sometimes when he laughs like that, I think he's about to spray the neighborhood with automatic weapons fire or something.
I don't mean to offend other realtors - they are telling the truth too, when they say, "this is the kitchen..."
Realtors need to offer more than drivel if they expect to get paid these days!
"Global savings are not infinite."
We don't need no steenking savings. We can run the presses 24/7, and get more presses if there aren't enough of them. Of course, it's a deficiency that we haven't found more than 24 hours in a day, etc. -- rest assured, we're working on it -- but we are confident that we can do our job -- confident that the problem is contained -- within the existing time constraints -- given a sufficient number of presses.
http://www.oftwominds.com/blogmar09/insolvency03-09.html
Dopey dopiness of dopified dopsters. Find the argument flaw.
I'll take Corus for by bff pick. FDIC employees need a trip to Chicago for some good pizza.
Jim is awesome; kudos for the attention.
I am glad some people think we are at a bottom, or have seen the bottom, or whatever.
I certainly don't agree.
Just wait until the next wave of people are out on the streets, after being kicked out of the houses in which they have been living the past six months rent-free.
We have had a lull in the impact of the housing market decline due to all the moratoriums, a lull that actually benefited a lot of borrowers who stopped paying their mortgages but still got to live in the houses.
I think I heard somewhere that only about 10% of borrowers in foreclosure are going to be able to take advantage of the new modification program, which sounds about right, given that 90% of the borrowers in default never should have owned a home anyway. Those 90% are going to have to start spending money on rent again really soon, and their houses are going to hit the housing market.
Go ahead and print. When inflation gains traction, debt buyers will balk or demand meaningful premiums above.
Then what? Can the Fed and Treasury issue and buy ALL the debt?
Kaboom, whimper. Razor's edge indeed.
Can you blame Jim for the chuckle? I can't but then I live in the Central Valley. After you've seen the sort of crap he's seen, you'd be really pretty cynical too.
So do we get someone like Steve Buscemi to play Jim the Realtor in "Falling Down Too"?
Hey Jim, if that's really you, I love your videos. They are a treat.
This is interesting, just noticed it in my inbox, guess my CFA reps are pretty heavily against the FASB moves (I am sure they have been all along, I just haven't been paying attention).
Guess I will pay my dues this year after all.
Can't wait until I see SEC filings for WFC's supposed earnings. Should be interesting.
C's tomorrow will be even better, if THEY report a profit, I will be calling BS.
https://www.cfainstitute.org/centre/news/newsletters/2009/april/article1...
From: CRE buyers aren't as emotional as RRE buyers
"Stronger companies have access to capital and will gain market share," he said. "Weaker companies just won't be around for much longer."
People are morons. Does anyone want more CRE "market share" right now? "Oh oh, I want to be the one holding more vacant properties."
Unless the vacant CRE somehow disappears from the market I don't see how this is good for the other players. If someone could afford to buy and then shutter the GGP properties it would help the others, but who wants to do that?
--
The Zombie Apocalypse begins when U3 hits 15%
Allen M,
Can the economy grow if financials are curbed through regulation? Other parts of the economy are seeing out sourcing at a very fast pace. Who fills up the vacuum created by the financials?
tia
GOOG flat AH. That stock trading flat has as much chance as house prices had of going flat in 2006. House prices were unstable, at stall speed, and if they didn't go up at least 6%/yr they were going to tank. Same with GOOG. No chance it stays flat.
ghostfacedinvestah,
I totally agree with you about the coming hurt from
a) the recognition of pent-up foreclosures, and
b) the end of 6-month's free rent (to folks who could not afford their mortgages). That was a very powerful stimulus program in and of itself! It's about to disappear.
I have suggested a way out some time ago.. it is just that my concepts conflicts with people's religious-type beliefs.
//Can the economy grow if financials are curbed through regulation? Other parts of the economy are seeing out sourcing at a very fast pace. Who fills up the vacuum created by the financials?//
lurking on the appraiser's site for Collier County (Naples, FL)
there is this in the property purchase records:
4120 CUTLASS
03 / 2009
$ 4,725,000.00 (by wife of hedge fund dude)
05 / 2008
$ 6,250,000.00
08 / 2003
$ 7,450,000.00
____________
2009 Assessment
Land Value
$ 4,192,650.00
(+) Improved Value
$ 2,558,227.00
(=) Just Value
$ 6,750,877.00
2009 Taxes $75,487
http://www.collierappraiser.com/
In the Port Royal section of Naples there are more than 100 MLS listings of a total of 500 homes in this 1950s ultra exclusive neighborhood ranging from $25m down to $3m)
I have suggested a way out some time ago.. it is just that my concepts conflicts with people's religious-type beliefs.
Lucifer must have a thing for ex-FIRE sex workers...
--
The Zombie Apocalypse begins when U3 hits 15%
Nahh.. too much attitude.
//Lucifer must have a thing for ex-FIRE sex workers//
""People are morons. Does anyone want more CRE "market share" right now? "Oh oh, I want to be the one holding more vacant properties.""
In light of the General Growth story today, I looked up Macerich, the outfit that owns our local mall. 92 malls, many of them acquired since 2004 in a couple of big buys. Including the biggest mall operator in Arizona, 18 malls, and a NY operator who owned big malls around DC and NYC. In California, they've got a whole lot of malls spang in the middle of subprime hotspots; Modesto, Sacramento, Salinas...
Oh, that easy credit... made CEOs into daredevils.
These guys are in trouble.
REBear,
The rest of the economy will someday soon begin to understand that when the dollar falls in value, outsourcing becomes *much* more expensive.
Financials are too large a share of the current economy- my comments earlier simply postulate that financial enterprises must *deliver* something cheaper or be gone.
My current idiot car insurance company is a great example- they pulled a 12% increase for a top rated insured- so guess what- they got shopped. I don't care if they have stock market losses to make up- I don't need them to make it up at my expense. Too many marginal players in too many niches in finance are going to be gone- they just are not needed.
Same with construction- do we really need much more CRE or RRE in this country right now? Answer- no.
So shrinkage.
It is quite natural, and quite expected. The boom was glorious, the bust tremendous. Survivors will be winners, but profits will be low for some time.
Now, when ADM starts buying busted ethanol producers, you should be afraid for your wallet.
Every single company that is surviving by outsourcing is simply paying upper fricking management too much to *not* solve business problems.
If your company is outsourcing overseas, it is time to bail on it- they are going to turn into inefficient losers. Note: stuff can be made, but when you start pushing your customer interface out 5000 miles to ESL students- you are screwed long term.
Some day this war's gonna end....
I liked the black marble floor, but faux butcher block formica counter tops?!? And those kitchen cabinets just HAVE to go! And don't get me started on those white walls. -SHIVER-
Nostrovia,
We really need an ignore feature again.
-------
http://www.afterthecrash.net - After the Crash, a blog shared by the CR Commenting Community. Hoopajoop on over.
When the Fed/Treasury run out of gas and can't suppress mortgage rates any longer, then what ? The next leg down is a doozie. Watch your step.
"When the Fed/Treasury run out of gas ..."
Conjure Bag says, "In my view, Citibank will collapse by September 30, leaving only the FDIC between it and oblivion."
Hoopajoops LTD,
Why not get a job at GS. You will be surrounded by people who think just like you, talk just like you and have probably f**ked the same women as you. It will be so much fun.. hearing your voice in the echo chamber.
//We really need an ignore feature again.//
There is the issue of PPIP..
//leaving only the FDIC between it and oblivion//
A trainspotter's paradise with an ocean view....
Nostrovia,
Jim the Realtor versus John Lockwood and Greg Swann in Thunderdome 2011.
"There is the issue of PPIP.. "
Conjure has said what he has to say.
Lucifer, you're a terrible, spammy, uninsightful contributor and I can't wait until I won't have to read any of your shitty posts ever again.
-------
http://www.afterthecrash.net - After the Crash, a blog shared by the CR Commenting Community. Hoopajoop on over.
Imagine the shower burn when 6 toilets flush at once.
Nostrovia,
> REBear wrote on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 4:28pm.Allen M, Can the economy grow if financials are curbed through regulation?
When financials comprise about 40% of US GDP no wonder why The Triumph of the Banking Oligarchs continues ( and this will be Obama's nemesis no matter his other policy decisions which I mostly agree with ).
The Quiet Coup
http://bit.ly/9QobY
NET NET: If the IMF's staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform.
The Big Takeover
http://bit.ly/rpHLw
NET NET: It's over - we're officially, royally f**ked.
US Banking Oligarchs to Obama
keep the ruse going with Summers, Geithner, Benanke, Bair because we own all of them.
The debt-drowned United States debt is already 350 percent of G.D.P !
So can the economy grow ?
Sure let's be a HUGE VERSION of Iceland's where its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are hoarding food and cash and blowing up their new Range Rovers for the insurance-resulted from a stunning collective madness !
Mad Max is in the USA's future !
mp wrote on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 4:56pm.
"When the Fed/Treasury run out of gas ..."
Conjure Bag says, "In my view, Citibank will collapse by September 30, leaving only the FDIC between it and oblivion."
Conjure is out of practice. Citi will be put through the transporter and like Captain Kirk split into good and evil. Amazing, 30 years ago and they named the episode; The Enemy Within.
"Mad Max is in the USA's future ! "
That's a real selling point for that house near the school bus depot then, methinks.
Nostrovia,
" bearly (member) wrote on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 4:53pm.
When the Fed/Treasury run out of gas and can't suppress mortgage rates any longer, then what ? The next leg down is a doozie. Watch your step."
The Fed is going to need to sop up a lot of MBS supply. This isn't the stock market where any idiot will buy on hope and faith, this is the bond market where people want to get paid back in cash. No one thinks the current risk/reward of MBS is balanced, the only buyer is the government.
Without the Fed interference, the street rate on a mortgage goes to high 6s within a week, at today's Treasury rates. Refi business stops on a dime, it will completely disappear at those rates.
Can they keep it going for much longer? Hard to say. It will be interesting to see the reaction of the bond market as the Fed balance sheet starts printing $400BB of MBS, 500BB, 750BB, 1T. To keep rates where they are, they will have to hit 1T by July or August (volumes of MBS are picking up, they probably need to buy 200BB or so a month to keep rates down, they have just over 300BB now).
Sounds OK in theory that they will buy that much, but hearing them say it, and actually seeing it on their balance sheet are two different things. How much faith will investors have in the dollar, in Treasuries, when they see that ballooning MBS balance?
"...recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy "
Conjure says, "It is too late for that."
"We are in the eye of the hurricane."
Comrade Misean...funny 
"Citi will be put through the transporter and like Captain Kirk split into good and evil."
Conjure says, "It is too late."
"Have a nice day."
I like that way Jim retains a sense of humor and you know he has to deal with that kind of crap all the time too.
mp wrote on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 5:11pm."...recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy "Conjure says, "It is too late for that." "We are in the eye of the hurricane."
Unfortunately mp I think you are correct i.e every man and women for themselves going forward in the declining USA
Rob,
"Citi will be put through the transporter and like Captain Kirk split into good and evil."
I do believe that Kirk actually had a good side.
Nostrovia,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/16/A-Vision-for-High-Speed-Rail/
Biden announced high-speed rail plans, $8bn up front and $1bn per year for 5 years.
Probably take $500bn to build it out, so that must only be planning money.
mp wrote on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 5:13pm.
"Citi will be put through the transporter and like Captain Kirk split into good and evil."
Conjure says, "It is too late."
Can Conjure and I agree that it is "too late to succeed" but that there is no surfeit of idiots who will try anyway?
mp wrote on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 5:13pm.
"Citi will be put through the transporter and like Captain Kirk split into good and evil."
I don't think there's going to be a good Citi left. They've got a lot of people jumping ship. I wouldn't call it "talent," per se, but I'd call it just about everyone with an ounce of value that can sell himself on this market. What's left over, even in the "good" units, is just the dregs. Citi didn't have its back shop act together in 04-06 and were losing business for even the most basic of services (e.g. overnight repos) because they were just not presenting a functioning, reliable, responsive business. I can't imagine how catatonic most of their crews must be after all this bad press. If I worked for them I'd be jumping ship just because I wouldn't want their reputation, or the reputation of the CitiDregs, to rub off on me.
-------
http://www.afterthecrash.net - After the Crash, a blog shared by the CR Commenting Community. Hoopajoop on over.
Foreclosures are starting to surge through the system again. You don't think all those banks want to get those out of the system before any potential cramdown bill comes into effect?
Plus, unlike toxic assets, the banks actually want to clear out their REO inventory as fast as possible. They have no interest in keeping those things. These recent moratoriums have left hundreds of thousands of deadbeats sitting on the books of the banks like festering wounds.
Expect inventory to spike up again real soon. It will be interesting to see if the demand is there to meet it.
form previous thread Net Net of Jon Stewart interviewing Eliz Warren of TARP oversite comm. is we got $66 in stock for every $100 given in bailout and value has dropped more.
98% of Americans duped BIGTIME again.... The Triumph of the Banking Oligarchs continues....
The rest of the economy will someday soon begin to understand that when the dollar falls in value, outsourcing becomes *much* more expensive.
:: ::
I can hardly wait.
Anecdote from today: I call a customer I sell parts to... had gone to a supplier conference at their plant where they had a number of their products on display - we were asked to come up with design suggestions for some of the parts making up their products to see if we could cut cost, if we did we would be awarded that business [we and the others there had already been vetted & 'qualified' to do this work]. The guy I was with was from the plant I work with - we are both engineers & very able to design cost out. We go there, look around and both go home after taking notes.
We identified a very attractive machined part we believe we could make via a different process - a forming process - at substantial savings to the customer. We ask to quote it... the buyer informs me the goal post has been moved... moved substantially. Before it was hogged out in Korea - way cheaper than able to machine here in the US - but a Chinese company from way deep in their 'automotive heartland' was also there and bid the work. Their proposal price came in something like half what the Koreans were willing to sell them for.
This is a very complex machined part - completely machined all over with cut outs & holes and flutes. We still might bid the job and beat the price but maybe not. Our molded part will be kinda crude and not quite as strong while the machined part will look like jewelry and be from a stronger material [I've seen the parts - WOW]... it is highly over engineered so our part might work but still - who wants to burn coal if you can afford to burn diamonds?
Moral of the story: the trade war is alive and well and been going on for quite some time. The combatants are in Asia - we here in the US are the 'collateral damage'... the dollar is the weapon of choice.
anon1 wrote on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 5:18pm.
Biden announced high-speed rail plans, $8bn up front and $1bn per year for 5 years.
$60bn and 9+ years for California HSR that's been in the planning stages since 1989. California has bonded $9b, expects $18b from the Feds and ... well the rest... the rest from somewhere else. Classic transit math.
I agree with the "eye of the hurricane" comment.
It began with the housing market, it will continue with the housing market.
We had a huge asset bubble, and there is still a lot of lost wealth that has to be paid for.
The moratoriums on foreclosures were a time out, but the beast is being unleashed again.
It's almost as if people forgot about the housing market, I guess that happens when you stop kicking people out of their homes and allow them to live rent free. But unfortunately someone has been advancing payments to investors on those mortgages, and will want to settle up on those homes ASAP.
With all the talk of "second derivative" inputs looking so great for unemployment and other things, what about:
- Forclosure wave set to roll in after moratoriums sunset?
- JPM and Capital One with credit card losses escalating (getting worse faster)?
I guess those do not matter much. Rally on Garth!
...a Chinese company from way deep in their 'automotive heartland' was also there and bid the work. Their proposal price came in something like half what the Koreans were willing to sell them for. [etc.]
Walmart will sue for business model infringement.
What was up with JPM saying the PPIP program was useless to them, they have nothing to sell to it, but it would be "good" for the market regardless? Soemthing has to give and soon.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn't ruling out the possibility his state may one day secede from the nation.
Speaking to an energetic and angry tea party crowd in Austin Wednesday evening, the Lone Star State governor suggested secession may happen in the future should the federal government not change its fiscal polices.
"There's a lot of different scenarios," Perry said. "We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we're a pretty independent lot to boot." (Video below: Tea party fires up debate)
Perry, who is beginning to gear up for what could be a challenging re-election race, rejected more than $500 million in federal stimulus funds earlier this year and has been highly critical of President Obama's stimulus package. (Related: Joe "The Plumber" speaks at Michigan tea party)
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...sion-possible/
Not that I take this that seriously, but sweet jesus. That this is now mainstream enough to be acceptable political pandering says something pretty awful.
Biden announced high-speed rail plans, $8bn up front and $1bn per year for 5 years.
Probably take $500bn to build it out, so that must only be planning money.
I guess we're picking winners and losers again.
Why is Sacramento so important? Also, who needs to go to S. Indiana at 200mph?
IMO this plan is DOA because (1) America has Boeing and (2) too many politically important population centers would lose (e.g. SW FL).
--
The Zombie Apocalypse begins when U3 hits 15%
NEW POST at Calculated Risk.
Ways to view:
Dead simple, read only interface at: http://users.thelink.net/bobn/CR
CRC-like interface at http://realize.org/cr/crcizer/
Full Blown Interface at http://www.hoocoodanode.org/
For live chat, and the new Mishbot feature, as well as notice of new posts on other blogs, join us in IRC.
To access IRC with firefox, install the chatzilla add-on and go to irc://irc.realize.org:9996/calculatedrisk.
Or set your IRC client for server irc.realize.org port 9996 and /join #calculatedrisk.
Feed back via bobn
Please STFU about "Conjure". It's an annoying for people who aren't in your geek group. Otherwise post a FAQ section to clue everybody in. Thank you and have a nice day.
Klaus B.
Actually it is much appreciated by many here. And who the hell are you?
Thanks CR for the promo! See you at the Thunderdome!!
Jim the Realtor, you make me laugh consistently.
And Klaus B. : from a longtime lurker and infrequent poster, I'd humbly suggest you not address mp or Conjure directly in a negative or taunting manner. It's a losers game, and you'd be better off just listening for few weeks or reviewing the old Haloscan posts. You'll get it soon enough.
Hey Jim the Realtor,
Love the videos - and when I do eventually return to SoCal from the Front Range, and when the time is right to buy property I'll look you up and ask you to be the buyer's agent .
-K
LOVE JIM, great guy, the only realtor in southern Ca. The madness continues here in Palm Springs where the Desert Sun declares : prices are stable now , time to buy.....
The Desert Sun is the most shameless, bird cage liner , on the planet . What to do ?
cremebrulee
Here's the video in case anyone wants to watch it. I think he has it on his youtube page too.
Jim the Realtor is the best thing to come out of the housing crash.
- Nemo