Re: On the Housing Market

2009-02-23 Thread dsummersmi...@comcast.net
Original Message: - From: David Hobby hob...@newpaltz.edu Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:08:53 -0500 To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: On the Housing Market Rceeberger wrote: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-housing-chart-thats-worth-1000-words-2009 -2 Housing prices may

Watch the news out of Switzerland -

2009-02-23 Thread Pat Mathews
UBS is starting to look very, very bad. I remember reading Earth and taking the Helvetian War for granted as the major early-21st Century Crisis without bothering to wonder what triggered the public mood of anger at their secrecy and covering up for dictators etc. Now, several months into the

Re: On the Housing Market

2009-02-23 Thread Nick Arnett
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:50 AM, dsummersmi...@comcast.net dsummersmi...@comcast.net wrote: The bubble was that clear, particularly where housing prices skyrocketed up on the coasts, in NV, etc. There is no way that a doubling in price is anything but a bubble. What's your definition of a

Re: Watch the news out of Switzerland -

2009-02-23 Thread David Brin
Yep, Pat. My chief fear is that people won't get riled up enough. From: Pat Mathews mathew...@msn.com To: Brin List brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 7:26:42 AM Subject: Watch the news out of Switzerland - UBS is starting to look very, very