Economy
by Anwell Tsai
| January 8, 2009
1. Average workweek of production workers in manufacturing
2. Average initial weekly claims for unemployment
3.New orders for consumer goods and materials, inflation adjusted
4. Vendor Performance
5. New orders, non-defense capital goods
6. New building permits issued
7. Index of stock prices
8. Money supply, adjusted for inflation
9. Interest rate spread: 10 yr Teasury notes and 3 month T bills
10. Index [...]
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Commercial Real Estate
by Ted Karsch
| December 31, 2008
When people first decide to buy an apartment building it is common for them to make a few easily preventable mistakes. The most common error that I see new investors make is not having what I like to refer to as the “investor tool chest”.
For example, if you wanted to build a house you would [...]
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Newspeak or Bankspeak?
by Ted Karsch | September 16, 2008The parallel I find most striking between the language used by financial executives and the language used by the fascists in 1984 are what Orwell referred to as “Newspeak”.