With an average household size in Britain of 2.3 people, that is less than half the number needed for people living in the city, never mind people buying them as second homes.

ECONOMIST: Housing

"Look at all the people who never rode in a car, much less owned one, " he says.

FORBES: The case for oil

The Tax Court is more or less saying that people with day jobs will never be able to meet the standard.

FORBES: Real Estate Professional Status - Becoming More Important - Very Hard To Prove

People who have never before in their lives seen -- no less implemented -- a business plan are now trying to decide if these companies will succeed by means of a "capital infusion" with various imposed preconditions and negotiate what we taxpayers (investors) should be getting for our money.

WSJ: Let's Cut Cap-Gains Taxes on Auto Investments

And since the sum seized is often less than the legal costs of trying to get it back, many people never try.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Britain has become less like Scandinavia, where young people tend to leave home at 18 or 19 and never return, and more like a Mediterranean country, where kids can stick around for decades.

ECONOMIST: Young adults have become reluctant to fly the family nest

And there's never been a generation of young people who are on track to be healthier than their parents -- or less healthy than their parents.

WHITEHOUSE: The First Lady Takes On Childhood Obesity

People are going to have to accept something less than the ideal, because you know what, the ideal will never become law.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing