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Ordinarily that isn't a bad idea, but I would be very careful in the real estate market for now. The market has been great because of low interest rates, but I would bet the market collapses pretty good when interest rates start to ratchet up, because people have really bought up the market pretty good.

Do you really need an SUV?

I just heard on WBBM today that the woman admitted her claim to the ticket was a fraud afterall, she just wanted the money sooooo badly

My honest advice would steer you away from individual stocks (high risk, high reward) and into one of the index stocks at the AMEX that mirror what the markets as a whole do. They have ones the mirror the SP, Dow, and Nasdaq.

Good to see another familiar face come back. Now we need to see LDF, HSC, and Brando come back!

Has anyone here done one? We got a pretty good offer on a lease, but aren't sure about what the bad points of leasing are. I would be curious to hear everyones experiences good bad or indifferent.

Where are these guys rated? Are they anywhere near Indiana's recruits for next year?

Busch stadium is a hole. It sucks. Out of all the stadiums I have been to, I liked it less than any others I have been to.

No, I wasn't on you at all. Just in general, I sick of the drama of Kobe.

Yeah, poor Kobe The thing is, even if he is guilty as hell, OJ Simpson taught us that a good lawyer trumps all.

You have heard my theory on our "recovery" so far, but I will share it with everyone else. Essentially this "recovery" is a figment of our imagination. What is carrying the economic figures thus far is the wars and increased defense spending. Because of Iraq and the war on terrorism we have pumped in nearly $.5 billion extra into the economy (in one form or another) this year. This is what has made all of those pretty growth numbers that you see on CBNC. Net defense spending when you include the wars and terrorism has basically doubled from we GW took office. Military spending is about 20% of our budget. So you double spending on 1/5th of our budget, it can cover the other short falls in the economy. Realize that hiring is essentially at a zero sum figure right now. For every person that this economy is hiring, someone else, somewhere, is losing their job. There has been no recovery in the job market. Wages have begun to creep up, but most of that is paying people for the increased work loads of covering for people who have been laid off. Most of the "reduction" in unemployment is from people who have run out of unemployment benefits, or have accepted lesser work because they can't find anything to replace their former wage, or have simply gave up looking for work. For the unemployment #'s all of those people are either considered "employed" or they are not counted as unemployed, because they are not looking for work. (working 1 hour a week is considered "employed" no matter what wage you make) Finally there is the stock market. Most people don't realize that the market is essentially a crystal ball that looks 6 months to a year into the future. And most of that forward looking is all in peoples heads. The tax cuts have made up profits that companies lost during the downturn. Also starting to be felt are all of the cost cuttings (ie layoffs) that companies have made. The economic figures look great because the military sector is making the entire economy look great. Without dissecting these numbers it really gives the impression that the entire economy is recovering. Which is enough pshycologially to get people to dive back into stocks, because they are also recovering based on these new found profits. The key to this recovery is to dupe enough companies into thinking this recovery is for real, that they start to believe it is real enough to start hiring. If this starts to happen, then it will become self-fulfilling prophecy. If enough people believe, it will become so.

Good call, I didn't even think about interest rates, and their affect on bond issues for the sale of government debt. I wonder how much of that would get made up by enhanced tax revenues from increased overseas sales?

Huh, I would have thought it was each with a million dollars

And once again, why are idiots like this still a part of this organization? If he is driving off players, and sabatoguing our image with the rest of baseball just can his ass!

Someone will put out money for this guy dispite his injuries. If not I have no problem offering a very ELo like deal, low money for one year, with a much bigger option for a 2nd year.

String her up with the rest of the child molestors.

It is going to be years for the Tigers. They are so not even close, it isn't even funny. They are building that team all wrong. Pitching and defense is the only thing that is going to do it for them playing in that canyon of a ballpark.

That's why they didn't need to check Chicago. Meigs Field is gone, so the terrorism threat has abated here. :fyou Daley

Hey Eye, I am sure that your heard they arrest the ticket stealer from the CBOE yesterday. She claims she "lost" the ticket... I'll bet she did

Wow. Now we know why he came out of retirement.

They need scoring definately. Really they could use an offensive minded 3. Although a big man isn't a bad thing to look at either. After Curry and Chandler, they are old on the front line.

Nice to see the Dowd report out again. Pretty much he hasn't tried to dispute anything in this. Just to say, I didn't do it...and we all know what that is worth.

Either Illinois or Wisconson are the only teams that look worth a s***. Everyone else either has big holes, or just sucks.

On cold pizza this morning they actually talked a lot about Monterray MX as a viable location for the Spos.

This is her mug shot. She also has changed her name since she was arrested