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	<title>Preview LA Homes, PreviewLAHomes.com, Mark Simon, Michael DiVita, Real Estate Search</title>
	<link>http://www.previewlahomes.com</link>
	<description>PreviewLAHomes.com is your site for unlimited and real time access to MLS information in the Los Angeles area at no cost or obligation.  As a free subscriber, you will receive the latest real estate listings, including Foreclosures, Short Sales, and REO’s at the same time or before a Real Estate Agent will review them.  You can target specific LA markets and sign up for courtesy emails for immediate and customized updates.</description>
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		<title>Apocalypse?  No!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The economic “glass half-empty” bears are denied by virtue of US bootstrap, though modest, growth.  GDP is predicted to reach 4% in 2011’s fourth quarter and onward.  Capital goods orders, industrial production and exports rise.  Labor markets improve.  Housing construction is reviving as the deflated bubble, time and demand show real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Signs of hiring are positive and unemployment claims fell for the 4th time in 5 weeks.  Modest job gains appear in transportation, warehousing, retail trade, manufacturing, health care and mining.  US innovation streams ahead as water-tight cell phones and ever slimmer tablets beckon to excite the world’s appetite for new generation technology.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C’MON BABY, LET’S DO THE TWIST</title>
		<description><![CDATA[C’MON BABY, LET’S DO THE TWIST
Last week the Fed revived a policy, “Operation Twist,” dubbed for Chubby Checker’s hit, in which $400 billion of their portfolio will convert from medium to long term bonds.  This creates buying pressure, lowers interest rates and affects long term borrowing i.e. mortgages.  Good news for home purchase/refinance, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOME SALES UP 8.8%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HOME SALES UP 8.8%
Home sales rose 8.8% statewide in August and 10.2% over the same month last year, a modicum of good news amidst a tepid market.  52% of those sales were in Southern California.  Meanwhile, bank savings climbed 10% above all of last year despite the lowest interest rates on record. Mixed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THREE AVENUES OF INVESTMENT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THREE AVENUES OF INVESTMENT
Traditionally a balanced portfolio is comprised of stocks, bonds and real estate.  Stocks slid again last week. Treasury yields are near all time lows.  With interest at bargain basement rates, home refinance may save you a bundle.  Even if you have refinanced in the past, it may be profitable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RECAP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week Warren Buffett’s big preferred stock purchase buoyed B of A and the US of A.  Head Fed Banker Bernanke (at the Jackson Hole summit) said housing should gradually return to health and encouraged gov’t to support it.  Equity markets moved up after seesaw swings. Gold stumbled.  T bills’ puny returns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SWORDS ARE RATTLING!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The nation’s debt ceiling was raised, but major rating agencies (i.e. Moody’s and S &#038; P) are threatening to lower the AAA rating for US Treasuries if the govt fails to manage debt.  That would mean higher interest for everyone.  Factor in the Fed rate at 0%.  Rates can only go up. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.previewlahomes.com/swords-are-rattling/</link>
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		<title>BOOM, BUBBLE AND BEYOND</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The pending home sales index rose 8.2% in May, the largest gain since April, 2010, signaling greater housing activity in the second half of the year, according to the National Assn. of Realtors.  With Los Angeles real estate prices down 30% and interest still historically low, but predicted to rise by year’s end, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.previewlahomes.com/boom-bubble-and-beyond/</link>
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		<title>HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[235 years ago, the Declaration of Independence separating the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain was signed and our great nation was born.  
Here are a few historical facts and ironies.  John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both signers of the Declaration, became the second and third President of the United States respectively.  Ironically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GOLD STANDARD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From SF’s Golden Gate to LA’s Golden State (5 Fwy) to SD”s Golden Hill district, you will find some of the most coveted real estate in the world.  Investors are buying up the bargains.  Shouldn’t it be families?
Search Los Angeles real estate through the MLS, foreclosures and short sales at www.PreviewLAhomes.com free, unlimited [...]]]></description>
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