March 2012
“The decline in young home owners is a puzzling trend. Interest rates have steadily declined over the last 30 years. Mortgage lending has loosened. Women have ascended in the workplace and supplemented their spouse’s earnings. How in the face of all of these positive developments did home ownership among the young keep falling?”
—Derek Thompson, “The End of Ownership: Why Aren’t Young People Buying More Houses?” (via theatlantic)
“Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.”
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Benedict Cumberbatch, IMDb.
Reason #3,754 why I adore English actors. Nothing beats their sense of humor.
February 2012
Robert Reich: No Longer Home Sweet Home: The Ongoing Housing Crisis and the End of an Era →
robertreich.org
Economic cheerleaders on Wall Street and in the White House are taking heart. The US has had three straight months of faster job growth. The number of Americans each week filing new claims for unemployment benefits is down by more than 50,000 since early January. Corporate profits are healthy….
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