Friday free-for-all!
It’s the end of the week and that means it’s free-for-all time! Lets do our regular end of the week news round up and open topic economic discussion post, here are a few recent links to kick things off:
-Spending cuts reduce BC deficit by $1 billion
-Vancouver home sales drop sharply
-Olympic Village buyer regret? Call the litigator!
-Condo king slashes Kelowna highrise prices
-Gov to double cash required for investor class immigration
-NY Times discovers Vancouver real estate
-Ooops-a-daisy in Kitsilano.
-Biggest US defaults are from the rich
-The big thinking in US condos is small
So what are you seeing out there? Post your news links, thoughts and anecdotes here and have an excellent weekend!
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July 12th, 2010 at 10:02 am
@realpaul:
I guess it hard for you to imagine people can be happy because your life is so miserable. You seem assume a lot of things about people. What can I asumr about you? Balding, divorced loser who doesn’t have kids or the kids hate you and you have a lot less money than you think you deserve.
July 12th, 2010 at 9:40 am
#205 EA, what a dipshit response. “I’m happy….I’m really really happy” . You and the rest of your imaginary playpals eh?
July 12th, 2010 at 9:34 am
@realpaul:
I have a good happy life. Your life sucks. Big difference. If I don’t agree with what was around me, I would go protest or start my own blog or something, not rant on like a maniac on someone else’s real estate blog to people who don’t care. Yeah, no wonder your life sucks.
July 12th, 2010 at 12:40 am
Taiwan Central Bank Seeks to Curb Housing Speculation as Prices Surge 20%
Those zany Rich Asians at it again, buying with cold hard cash, of course.
July 11th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
@Mike: “All I was trying to point out that foreign buying and easy immigration are a big reason for today’s bubble pricing..”
I think they are an excuse, not the root cause.
July 11th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
#194 EA, so dude, when you wake up in the morning you decide to negate everything you don’t like? Disonance is a bitch man, but for the rest of us, the truth is at the nexus of change. If you’ve got your head up your ass and you dig the shitty status quo, then you get what you deserve, then don’t complain when things go wrong in your life. I’m with the people who can call a spade a spade without having to hide under the bed when the boogie man invades my perfect world. I watched a documentary recently that reminded me of what Hitler said in Mein Kamp, “people are stupid, you must repeat the message many times.” Remind you of what you’re reading in the funny papers? Be a thinker, not a believer. The sad part is that everything I bring to your attention is correct and factual upspun truth, you might not like it, but that doesn’t matter does it. Drink drink drink that kool aid my friend. I guess you’re mad when you see stories that disagree with you on TV? Have you shot out the set yet? Kicked in the glass? The dreams getting worse? feeling like you could do something about those nasty protesssssssstors if you only had a chance? The RCMP has a taser just for your kind…..mindless, pliable and senseless, wanting to kill kill kill because you got beat up a lot in high school and married the fat chick..
Anytime some dickwad says its OK to let the Charter of Rights get flushed for the sake of a few Olympic advertisers you sort of know that you’re hearing from a complete dildo. Ask the guys who fought and died for your freedom dickwad.
July 11th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx7XNb3Q9Ek
Here is another vietnam clip for you….”getcha a case of beer for that one”
Love that line…