Is it possible that someone is trying to fool the public concerning the state of the economy? Is the sudden sense of panic unfounded? Yes, there was a 250 point plunge in the Dow Jones industrial average, and an explosion in rising home foreclosure rates. Subprime loans are showing the consequen
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03/22/2007
It looks like LAX is staging a Hollywood spectacular—a multi-million dollar return of "Encounters," the arches theme restaurant from 1969—last redesigned by Disney Productions— and the landing of the worlds largest jumbo-jet Airbus A380, arriving non-stop from Toulouse, France. With a wing-span b
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03/20/2007
Whoever said our real estate office didn’t have character? Drop into one of our Wed am meetings in the local saloon on The Strand in Hermosa Beach. I doubt there’s another office meeting in town quite like it. Equality prevails like a parochial grade-school, with the exception of prerequisite uni
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03/18/2007
Sitting here looking at the fog drifting in can’t help but leave me with a feeling of gloom. Nothing specific, but GLOOM never the less. Gloom is one of those things that is brought on with a lack of something positive on ones mind, e.g., Where should I have dinner tonight?; Is there another dece
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03/16/2007
Refinance to get cash and make ends meet? Nothing to it. Refinance again in six months and get a better loan with a lower interest. Bad credit? Not a problem.Tell New Century Financial Corp.: stock down 48% from less than a year ago.Sub-prime was going hand-in-hand with exuberance. The idea that
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03/14/2007
Yeah, I predicted a hands-down winner. There was no doubt in my mind, the King was pre-annointed. Who in the tennis world could possibly equal the smoothest, Zen-like personality of the current number-1? I was considering joining a friend to make the trip to Indian Wells next week. And now? Hard
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03/12/2007
So where’s your money? Ginepri advances in Pacific Life Open at Indian Wells, CAAmerican Robby Ginepri was a first-round winner at the $3.285 million Pacific Life Open. And there will be other winners in the early going. But is there much reason to think that ultimately the winner is in question?
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03/11/2007
“’It seems like only yesterday...,’ so to speak. Driving down Sepulveda Blvd. from Westwood Village in my ‘32 Ford, longboards sticking out of the rumble seat in the rear; we made our first stop at Manhattan Beach, before proceeding on to points south. The only reminders still standing today are
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03/10/2007