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Real estate: Good news for buyers

9:19 AM Tue, Jul 17, 2007 |
Aaron Weiss

Salvador at the Portland Real Estate Blog says housing inventory has reached 5 months. Looking at the overall trend, that's good news for buyers, bad for sellers:

For comparison purposes, inventory at this time in 2006 was only 2.6 months. And in 2005, during Portland’s record breaking year, inventory was at an all time low of 1.5 months. In other words, the number of homes for sale in Portland and the suburbs has doubled and...

When your lunch tastes like cardboard

5:31 PM Thu, Jul 12, 2007 |
Aaron Weiss

Counterfeiters in China continue to go to amazing lengths to imitate real food. First it was egg piracy, now we get word of dumplings stuffed with cardboard.

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West Coast GDP = China

5:21 PM Fri, Jul 06, 2007 |
Aaron Weiss

westcoastgdp.gifFrom the wonderfully obscure Strange Maps blog comes a map comparing the economic production of the US to the next four largest countries.

&nbs...