Housing Becoming Disconnected from Income?
the hook for £100bn – it’s “business as usual” at Northern
Rock
Very cool global GDP animation
the mortgage barn door: "Incentives to follow prudent lending procedures
did not ‘erode,’ as Bernanke put it. Incentives to follow imprudent
lending procedures flooded the market."
Share Count to Continue Its Steady Decline
ludicrousness of white cachet: Would you have second thoughts about buying
a Jaguar if the brand were Indian-owned?
in the Bread Aisle: "Often, breads with hearty-sounding words like
“7 grains,” “cracked wheat” and “multi-grain”
on the label are made with bleached flour and brown food coloring rather than
healthful whole grains. Some bread packages use terms like “100 percent
wheat,” which gives many shoppers the wrong impression they are buying
100 percent whole wheat bread. And many multigrain varieties contain less than
2 percent of the grains they promise on the front of the package."