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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Jewish News
From TorahMusings: ▪ Former FBI lawyer opposes Pollard release ▪ Results of Jewish non-profit copmensation survey ▪ New ‘liberal halachic’ rabbinical school taking shape in Toronto ▪ The ‘Real Jew’ Debate ▪ The truth about the wig couple ▪ SALT … Continue reading
Posted in Jews
Tagged american jewry, chief rabbi, child molestation, josh berman, moses mendelssohn, Young Israel
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The Housing Boom And Bust
I’ve been blogging about mortgage refinance for a couple of years, strongly influenced by my free market economics background at UCLA and by this 2009 book by Stanford economist Thomas Sowell: Did You Hear About The 89-Square Foot House? Home … Continue reading
Posted in Real Estate
Tagged boom and bust, economist thomas sowell, foreclosure auction, free market economics, henry cisneros, Thomas Sowell
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Should We Root For Michael Vick?
JEAN-JACQUES TAYLOR writes for the Dallas Morning News: Since the Cowboys aren’t going to play in the Super Bowl, you might as well root for Vick and the first-place Philadelphia Eagles to represent the NFC. They get an opportunity to … Continue reading
Posted in Football
Tagged dallas morning news, dumb decisions, michael vick, nfl commissioner, philadelphia eagles, troubled kids
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Israel’s Housing Prices Spike
Why does real estate increase in price when Jews move into a neighborhood? Israel has ridden out the great recession better than almost any Western country. The Los Angeles Times reports: The surge is an unexpected side effect of the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel
Tagged bank of israel, benchmark interest rate, financial meltdown, lebanon war, palestinian uprising, unexpected side effect
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