Karl Case, a professor of economics at Wellesley College, points to the luxury condo market in Boston.

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Dr. KARL CASE (Wellesley College): What really determines the long-term mortgage rate is some combination of inflationary expectations, international demand, the value of the dollar.

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Karl Case is a housing economist at Wellesley College.

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And, last spring, along with Karl Case of Wellesley College and Anne Thompson of McGraw-Hill Construction, I conducted a detailed survey of the attitudes of recent home buyers in four American cities, as I discussed here in October.

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Always an enthusiastic reader, she pored over Karl Menninger's The Human Mind: case studies of pyromaniacs, kleptomaniacs, schizophrenics and murderers.

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While the indictment of Libby was a blow for the White House, Fitzgerald and his grand jury did not bring charges against Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political strategist, who was also entangled in the case.

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