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Deal galore in real estate

Faced with a vanishing customer base, it's no wonder developers and real estate agents are thinking up new ways to encourage potential home buyers to take the leap. Often their offers aim to assuage people's understandable fears about what the future holds, whether it relates to home values or job security.

In Las Vegas real estate, someone’s loss is another’s gain

LAS VEGAS – If you'd like to learn about adapting to change, spend an afternoon with Jennifer Martin, Realtor. You might also buy a condo or a house while you're at it. Priced to insane levels at the top of the bubble, lots of Las Vegas real estate is now available, cheap. If Las Vegas is where you'd like to be, someone else's disaster may be your bargain.

Toyota Outsells Ford in March

- Mukesh Buch Annualized domestic auto sales edged slightly up but in March auto sales plunged. The weak labor market, widening recession and tight credit conditions hurt industry sales. Toyota Motor sales outpaced that of Ford in the month and in the first quarter.

Promising signs from Valley housing data

For the first time in years, there's good news coming out of metropolitan Phoenix's housing market.

Real estate numbers show glimmer of hope

WEST MICHIGAN -- The Muskegon County real estate market is beginning to show signs that the months-long struggle may be easing.

A Tale of Two Bows, starring Barack Obama

Barack Obama paid his respects to two very different monarchs. Watch the American President give a slight head nod to the UK's Queen Elizabeth, and then practically touch the toes of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah. This video is posted in response to some commens on the piece by Sean Osborne

Obama in Deep Submission to Saudi Arabian King Abdullah

US President Barack Obama greets King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

I have been reading CFP for a little over a month now

I have been reading CFP for a little over a month now and believe that someone in the press is finally getting it right, telling the truth.

Left Over from World War II

Do you have any clothes in the closet left over from World War II? Perhaps you’re still driving one of the cars built following the end of that era? No? Well, then, why is the United States still involved with two institutions that were the direct result of the end of World War II and the rise of the threat from the former Soviet Union?

California Realtors offers perks to home buyers

What will it take to get people to buy a home during a brutal recession?

Real estate showings increase

Jackson Hole, Wyo. – Teton County real estate showings are on the rise as 20-percent price reductions and low interest rates have finally lured buyers out of the shadows.

Local real estate firms merge

The combined company will be the largest multi-state RE/MAX firm in the Carolinas and the second-largest brokerage in the Charlotte metro area based on sales volume and transactions.

Obama Weighs Buyout Rage Against Future of Iconic Auto Union

April 2 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama, confronting growing public outrage against bailouts, is taking a hard line with the United Auto Workers, the union that supported his election and whose future now hangs in the balance.

Small Business Provincial Tax Index Quebec, Ontario rank last in provincial tax comparison

Quebec and Ontario have the least small business-friendly provincial tax systems in the country, according to a new study by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).

Ontario Numbers Racket

While it's better to have an inept government than competent crooks running the lotteries, the OLG could at least seek the advice of a few Dons on how to run the numbers game more efficiently.. William Bedford

Springtime

APRIL POWERS April blows and April snows,

How to right the California housing market

- Douglas C. Neff and Gerd-Ulf Krueger Other than perhaps McDonald's hamburgers, what is selling better today than it did a year ago? Resale homes in California.

Historic drop for Manhattan housing market

NEW YORK (AP) — The recession has hammered confidence in the Manhattan real estate market, with first quarter sales falling to their lowest number in decades, experts said.

U.S. Auto Sales in March Fell Less Than Estimates on Incentives

April 2 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. auto sales tumbled 37 percent in March, less than analysts estimated, as record incentive spending helped blunt the effect of job losses and low consumer confidence.

US Private Sector Job Losses Accelerate in March

New economic data show unemployment could be worsening in the private sector and manufacturing activity shrinking for a 14th consecutive month.

Human Rights Commissions no friends of freedom

What do human rights commissions and tribunals have in common with true justice, proper courts, equality for all and common sense. Very little it would appear. The more I hear of the absurdities and wreckless decisions these tribunals and commissions are responsible for the more I believe they are run by politically correct zealots bent on forcing the values of special interests groups on society and are in fact enemies of our long cherished freedoms of speech and religion.