virginia.edu - 2/26/2009
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National housing price declines and foreclosures have not been as severe as some analyses have indicated, and they are not as important as financial manipulations in bringing on the global recession, according to a new analysis of foreclosures in 50 states, 35 metropolitan areas and 236 counties ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 3/5/2009
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Newly-released academic research suggests that Sarah Palin's sexiness,
while great for selling copies of Vogue magazine and...
political buttons about the hottest governor from the coldest state last fall, may actually have hurt her vote-getting ...
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New study suggests hot Sarah Palin should dowdy-down for ...
msnbc.msn.com - 3/4/2009
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For those who have endured this winter's frigid
temperatures and today's heavy snowstorm in the Northeast, the...
concept of global warming may seem, well, almost wishful. But climate is known to be variable — a cold winter, or a few strung together ...
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Warming might be on hold, study finds - Discovery.com- ...
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Eighty Seven Percent of Housing Value Loss* in Just Four States
Hit & Run —
... double the rate it was in 2000. What about the effect of foreclosures on the balance sheets of American banks? Potential losses in housing values from 2008 foreclosures in all 50 states — if values decline to 2000 levels — were less than one-third of the $350 billion provided to banks and insurance companies to cope with losses in mortgage-backed securities, Lucy and Herlitz estimated. See more of the UVA findings here. *not "foreclosures" as originally headlined. Nevada, ...
Bubble States
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... A new study takes issue with the media narrative that foreclosures are dangerously widespread. The paper’s authors, William Lucy and Jeff Herlitz at the University of Virginia, examined foreclosure rates in every state, 35 metropolitan areas and 236 counties, and they found that 62 percent of foreclosures in 2008 were in [Arizona, California, Florida or Nevada]. ...
Housing Foreclosure Map
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... A recent study seems to confirm a point that Dave Schuler has been making repeatedly for months: the housing bubble is a narrowly targeted geographic phenomenon: ...
Chicago Foreclosures
The Glittering Eye —
... took note of a study, complete with a map of its own, that exhibits a pattern of foreclosures that’s remarkably similar in its own way on a nationwide macroanalysis basis to the local microanalysis map above and I suspect that if you refined each of the most trouble states to show the foreclosure rate by neighborhood you’d see a similar pattern. ...
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