nytimes.com - 11/24/2008
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The median sales price plunged 11.3 percent from a year ago to $183,000, and sales of existing homes fell more than expected, a real estate trade group said. >
online.wsj.com - 11/19/2008
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. consumer prices took the biggest
plunge in 61 years during October, pulled down by
a sinking economy that evidence suggests is sending inflation into retreat. Separately, home construction took its fourth tumble in a row during ...
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Consumer Prices Decline in October; Housing Starts Sink ...
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Talking Points Memo —
... A lot to chew on in the new housing numbers out this morning from the National Association of Realtors. The drop in the average price of homes, 11.3 percent since last October, was the largest since the group began keeping records in 1968. Sales of previously owned homes fell 3.1 percent. ...
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Political Animal —
... today. This, combined with Friday's gains, mark the Dow's biggest two-day percentage gain since October 1987. * Home prices plunged in October. * Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.), one of Congress' most offensive members, was ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 12/18/2008 — Iain -- Venezuela, Iran, and Russia are indeed being hard hit by falling oil prices and that is good -- the less discretionary income they have to spend on terrorism and other mischief, the better. So let's consider what we can do to keep prices ...
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