Housing Bust: Just Kidding!

August 2nd, 2006 2:00 PM

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Housing Bust: Just Kidding!
For almost five years, the media have warned of a damaging dive in home prices. But all of a sudden, theyre waking up to the idea of a buyers market. And mortgage rates are still far from the highest ever, which one reporter exaggeratedly suggested.

I Hate to Burst Your Bubble
BMI Director Dan Gainor says its time for the media to wrap up all this unfounded bubble talk.

G: NY Times finds Japanese companies create American jobs
B: ABC worries about online predators like Snap, Crackle and Pop
U: CBS anchor watches Kucinich suggest 100-percent tax on oil profits

Raul Castro: A Hard-Line Commie with a Soft Spot for Free Enterprise?

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Don Boudreaux: Cut the minimum wage with Ockhams Razor (TCSDaily.com)

Ohio Supreme Court rules to protect property from eminent domain abuse (Institute for Justice)

Congress to cable: family tiers or censorship (Reason)

Let employees control future of retirements (Cato)

Tim Carney: The ride of the regulators (Americas Future Foundation)

Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer
American Enterprise Institute
Washington, D.C., August 7

2006 Liberty, Economy & Society Summer Seminars
The Independent Institute
Oakland, Calif., August 7-11

Book Forum: Crisis of Abundance with author Arnold Kling
Cato Institute
Washington, D.C., August 29

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