Turning ash into bricks (Reg Req’d)
No one around these parts ever thought the gunk from the nearby Navajo Generating Station was anything more than an annoyance, much less something you could use to build a house.
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KENNETH HARNEY: Mortgage firms reduce surprises at closing (Detroit Free Press) WASHINGTON -- It's a distressingly familiar scenario for home buyers and refinancers, and was one of the major mortgage-related consumer complaints to federal agencies in 2005: good faith estimates of
Immigration has a face - in Incline I hardly noticed him initially, just another Latino man walking east on Lakeshore early each morning. via North Lake Tahoe Bonanza read more...
OER, CPI, New York Rentals And The Fed: A Strange Love Story Barry Ritholtz submits: What do apartment rents in NYC have to do with Federal Reserve policy, interest rates, and rising bond yields? According to a recent analysis out of
Letting the walls talk (Reg Req'd) Like many Americans, I used to have a bad attitude about wallpaper. The very word brought up dreary images of Victorian cabbage roses, 1970s flocked velvet, and the endless hours
Sisters, husbands see room for improvement Henry Steinbuck envisioned his ideal master bedroom, complete with a 30-inch plasma TV -- all a guy needs to happily watch the entire NFL season in the comfort of his
State suspends Hare Mortgage's license, levies $10,000 fine (The Meridian Star) The Mississippi Department of Banking and Consumer Finance has suspended a Meridian mortgage company's license for three years and fined its owner $10,000.read more...