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Foreign investors are staying away from US housing

BusinessInsider.com 

Coldwell Banker

Oh no, we thought when we read the report from the National Association of Realtors. Not now! Not when there’s a huge unstoppable condo glut building up in the teetering housing markets of San Francisco, Manhattan, and Miami, when sales and prices are already dropping. Foreign investors are now needed more than ever to absorb this new high-end inventory and bail out these markets.

That’s what everyone has been praying for. The last thing we need is for Chinese investors... Читать дальше...

After 10 years, term limits reshape Nebraska Legislature

JournalStar.com 

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Ten years after term limits started booting Nebraska senators out of office, the Legislature has changed dramatically and debate still rages over how long they should be able to serve.



Obama eats exactly 7 almonds every night — here are some of his other nighttime habits

BusinessInsider.com 

Reuters/Pete Souza/White House handout

President Barack Obama is a night owl, and his hours of solitude after dark are crucial to his well-being, according to a story in The New York Times.

The Times reveals how the president spends his late-night time in the Treaty Room, his private office in the White House residence.

After he eats dinner with his wife and daughters on the evenings he's in Washington, he retreats to this office for four or five hours to gather his thoughts, catch up on reading, and watch sports on TV. Читать дальше...

Contador pulls out of Tour de France after fever, crashes

TheRepublic.com 

ARCALIS, Andorra — Diminished by a fever and still reeling from crashes on the opening two days of the race, two-time champion Alberto Contador pulled out of the Tour de France during the toughest Pyrenean stage on Sunday. Slightly more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the end of Stage 9 from the Spanish town

Mike's Blog Round Up

Crooks and Liars  

Reading the Pictures: The graphic Alton Sterling cover.

Indomitable: Again – dear America's police, please stop killing us.

The Baseline Scenario: CEOs, politics, and other people’s money.

Rewire: Justice Kennedy’s silence speaks volumes about his apparent feelings on women’s autonomy.

Finally, a law professor's response to a "Black Lives Matter" shirt complaint.

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.

Mariah Carey Gets a Sweet Kiss From Monroe & Moroccan

«Just Jared» 

Mariah Carey looks glamorous as she makes her way back to her yacht on Friday afternoon (July 8) in Ponza, Italy. The 46-year-old entertainer was joined by her five-year-old twins Monroe and Moroccan (not pictured) for lunch and sight seeing before they headed back to the boat. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Mariah [...]

Loneliness Belongs to the Photographer

The New Yorker 

In her beautiful meander of a book “The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone,” Olivia Laing examines the idea of loneliness, in particular the loneliness of the city dweller, through the works and lives of a number of different artists. She proposes that loneliness is less a state than it is a fixed part of our identity, a tribe one might belong to as much as we might the tribes of queerness or blackness or femaleness. Implicit in her book are two intriguing notions: first, that loneliness... Читать дальше...

Explained: How anti-Trump groups hope to upend the Republican Convention

GantDaily.com 

The long-shot effort to stage a revolt against presumptive nominee Donald Trump at the GOP convention and unbind all the delegates has put a new spotlight on the arcane process of drafting the party’s convention rules. Anti-Trump organizers, led by the group FreeTheDelegates, have several options available to them, each with increasing difficulty and longer […]

How to make money in this lousy market

GantDaily.com 

Being an investor is tricky these days. There’s broad agreement that the stock market is pricey, the economic recovery is long in the tooth and central banks really can’t do much more to prop up growth. Hardly anyone is predicting market Armageddon, but this is not the “get rich quick” era. The word on Wall […]





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