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Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: “Average Length of Time from Start to Completion increased Sharply in 2022”

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by Calculated Risk on 3/18/2023 02:11:00 PM At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:• Pandemic Economics, Housing and Monetary Policy: Part 2• Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-March • Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales…

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UBS Seeks Government Backstop As It Rushes To Finalize Credit Suisse Takeover Deal As Soon As Tonight

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So much can change in just 48 hours.Late on Thursday, just hours after the SNB had launched the first (of many) bailout attempts of Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse, Bloomberg blasted the following headline:*UBS, CREDIT SUISSE SAID TO OPPOSE IDEA OF…

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“Take Our Nation Back”: Trump Calls For Protests As ‘Imminent’ Arrest Expected

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As the banking crisis and the Hunter Biden laptop scandal continues to unfold, the potential indictment of former President Trump on felony falsification charges could be the only headline that really matters next week. Fox News anchor John Roberts informed viewers on Friday…

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MiB: Cliff Asness, AQR

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This week, we speak with Cliff Asness, co-founder and managing partner at AQR Capital Management. The firm has ~$100 billion in assets under management. An active researcher, Asness contributes to numerous publications and has received a variety of accolades, including the…

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COVID-19 Vaccines Can Cause ‘Permanent Disabilities,’ Says German Health Minister

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Authored by Lorenz Duchamps via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Germany’s Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach, who once claimed that COVID-19 vaccination is free of side effects, admitted last week that he was wrong, saying adverse reactions occur at a rate of…

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Dutch Farmers Storm To Victory In Regional Elections, Set To Become Largest Party In The Senate

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Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,The success of the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) will further undermine the Dutch government’s plans to impose radical agricultural reforms campaigners say will destroy rural communities...Lawmaker Caroline van der Plas, leader of the populist BBB Farmer-Citizen…

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Links 3/18/2023

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90-year-old tortoise becomes father of three BBC Loneliness and the Trinity of Creativity: Ada Lovelace, the Poles of the Mind, and the Source of Her Imaginative Powers The Marginalian (Chuck L) Posed Riddles Drift Magazine (Anthony l) #COVID-19 What Worked Against…

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Will AI Go Rogue?

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Following this week’s release of GPT-4, OpenAI’s new multimodal model accepting image and text inputs rather than ChatGPT’s text-only prompts, people on social media have been marveling about the new engine’s results in performing a variety of tasks, such as creating a working…

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Macgregor: The Gathering Storm

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Authored by Douglas Macgregor via TheAmericanConservative.com,America’s self-inflicted trouble in Ukraine aggravates our dangerous trouble at home...The crisis of American national power has begun. America’s economy is tipping over, and Western financial markets are quietly panicking. Imperiled by rising interest rates, mortgage-backed securities and U.S. Treasuries…

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VDH: Are We The Byzantines?

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Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome.Always outnumbered in…

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ATF Gains Financial Information On Potential Gun Buyers For Warrantless Tracking, Documents Show

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Authored by Emily Miller via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),The federal government has been using Americans’ income and gun purchases to conduct warrantless tracking and deny Second Amendment rights. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) gave…

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Microsoft Cuts AI Ethics Team As It Invests Billions More Into AI Technology, Report Says

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Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),The last remaining members of an ethics and society team within Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) department didn’t survive a recent round of mass layoffs, according to a report.Screens displaying the logos of…

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Deloitte’s Beijing Office Suspended By China Over ‘Deficiencies’ In Huarong Audit

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The Chinese government suspended operations at the western-linked auditor Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.'s Beijing office for three months after finding "deficiencies" in its auditing work for China Huarong Asset Management. According to Bloomberg, the Chinese finance ministry carried out a thorough assessment of…

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Xi To Arrive In Moscow Monday, Ukraine War ‘Core Part’ Of Talks With Putin

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The Chinese Foreign Ministry has confirmed in a statement on its website that President Xi Jinping's much anticipated state visit to Russia will be held from March 20-22, marking the first such in-person visit with President Putin since the Ukraine war started in February…

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USVI Lawsuit Makes Stunning Allegation: Jamie Dimon ‘Knew In 2008’ That Jeffrey Epstein Was Sex Trafficker

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The US Virgin Islands hit back against JPMorgan's claim earlier this month that CEO Jamie Dimon had no clue that Jeffrey Epstein was breaking the law."Jamie Dimon knew in 2008 that his billionaire client was a sex trafficker," argued US Virgin…

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