China housing prices have been relatively stable all year, rising no more than 1 percent in cities like Shanghai thanks to government controls on buying, lending and building.
You might have read over Thanksgiving weekend a piece by friend-of-the-blogger Martha Irvine of The Associated Press, who wrote about the continually recession-proof industry of youth sports, an economic engine that shows no sign of burning out thanks to ever-more parents throwing bigger and bigger piles of money into stove to stoke its fire.
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More food-price increases are coming (no) thanks to the 2013 mandate.
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No one has to apologize for driving a GM car any more thanks to Lutz.
Prices in Europe are often more than double that, thanks to stiff taxes and no subsidies.
On the ball though, he was more Magic Johnson, thanks to his signature move, the no-look backheel pass.
Pai contends that the optical industry, after seeing years of annual price declines of 15% or more, is positioned for an improving environment, thanks in no small measure to significant consolidation in the industry.
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Relying on our intuitions alone for self-knowledge is dangerous, because thanks to the nature of the adaptive unconscious, they are often no more accurate than a shot in the dark.
The whistles, horses, cars, tiny furniture, spinning dancers, jumping horses and flapping birds produced today are almost identical to those made more than a century ago - though no two toys are precisely the same, thanks to the handcrafted production process.
And, thanks to the correction, valuation has improved and excessively bullish sentiment is no more.
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