Soft Case for Home Ownership: Forced Savings/Low Interest Rates

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New Orleans        Dueling columns in the Times smashed the drunken or doped spin of the Realtors Association trying to claim that the housing market was “back” and in the “Your Money” section made a soft and shrugging case for home ownership: “Indeed, many people who are buying at the moment are locking in mortgage …

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Recession Way Not Over: Krugman

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New Orleans To be clear Paul Krugman, the Princeton-based, Nobel prize winning, New York Times writing columnist has a dog in this race:  he argued that the stimulus package to pull out of the recession needed to be way bigger from the get-go.  But, looking past the “I told you so,” he is dead on …

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