Kimmo

prevailing wage rates include benefits. so if you take the horrifyingly egregious income of $23 and change per hour, times it by full time status (is this what most get?) you get $920 /week (minus benefits, which are not paid in cash). so maybe that ticket booth attendant walks with around $600 per week cash? like, oh my god no wonder we are bankrupt. lower the taxes on the rich immediately lols. sounds like you chose the wrong career, jayb!

No one was buying treasuries. stagnant. hence, higher rates. why? a lot of talk about the recovery taking hold, giving better yields in other markets? so i read. QEII doing nothing because it was already priced into the markets months ago on initial rumors? i personally have no friggin idea where treasury (and mortgage) rates will go in the near future. my feeling is that they will stabilize near current rates or climb a bit higher, testing the recovery, if you will. then the feds will shift to mortgage backed security purchasing, if rates don't pull back a bit....

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And what is your 6 month outlook for 10 year treasuries? they've been hammered for three weeks straight now.

if only your understanding of irony rivalled your supposed understanding of "trailer trash". then you might even agree with me.

oh, the irony.

i think you are missing the point. which is: if it wasn't for democrat's efforts, there would have been no shift in previous US military policy. dadt was a compromise.

to be exact about it, democrats are entirely responsible for dadt. without democrats, dadt wouldn't exist, and homos would still be as ostracized as in the whenever pre-90's.

you seem to be missing the point. perhaps he doesn't want to climb this mountain. seems like he doesn't, at least right now. i personally think the answer to his question is in his question: follow your bliss.

excellent article. thanks for posting.

"stuck it to the man"? now what is it that you are going on about, anyways? it seems things here have gotten so.... polarized around here!

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/834016/Re_Frannie_and_Freddie I can continue searching but why bother. I added the bold now what is it that you are going on about, exactly?

250,000? damns, that coulda bought you a 2,000/mo revenue stream on an appreciating asset!

nice scenario. i'm surprised everyone didn't jump on the opportunity to put more cash in the company's coffers.

cash, or equity?

1. a big "if". your simplistic scenario is probably one that jb doesn't believe either, and 2. unrelated.

You have been polishing your crystal ball? i've been polishing my laptop screen (ew!). does that count?

jb, i absolutely support your right to remain utterly and completely angry every moment of your life. i further support your right to think that this will somehow change that which you are so upset about.

heh, let's not jump to conclusions about my current financial position in life inre RE investments! I'll leave any coy allusions and pretenses to another poster. I won't post particulars, but I'll say that my current investments would not give a particularly cushy "retirement"! (although i could scrimp and save and make do, i suppose, living off of potatos and wild thistle tubers.)

what's funny is that in the big scheme of things, most posters here have way more in agreement than vice-versa. but then it just wouldn't make for much fun, would it?

fair enough, although i'd question the reality of any jackboot on your neck. balance this vision with a list of 10 positives in your life! after all, there really is a lot to be grateful for. i do believe it's not only possible but very desirable to maintain emotional and intellectual clarity and balance when working towards justice. but that's just me, informed certainly by my own experiences, and exposure to various individuals and schools of thought.

Thanks for the clarification inre "worry". no you do not seem worried. but perhaps some element of "worry" prompts your investment scenarios? lol let's talk about the psychology of "worry", shall we? yes was alluding to real estate. and yes, some personal interest is needed, lest it become "work" (and a looming bankruptcy).

i think it speaks more to their myopic vision and spirituality and, as such, might elicit pity and empathy more than agitation.

we live more so in a world of mis-allocation than scarcity. to correct: mis-allocation would be the diagnosis if one thinks that indeed the existing massive inter-nation and inter-individual wealth disparities are what lead to the situations mentioned above somewhere.

am i correct in surmising from your tone that you are quite upset with JayB?