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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:16:28 GMT Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:16:28 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ As we reach the end of another year we realize that many things we had planned to do remain as they were when we added them to the list, and in some cases the time to accomplish this task has passed. If you were going... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/12/21/time_has_not_run_out! 5a3f605f-ed0f-4cdf-8fc3-27fdf71c7072 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:16:28 GMT If you're out of work or your hours have been drastically reduced, then I don't have to tell you about the recession. Likewise, if you've lost your home, you know we're far from out of the woods. But if you're among the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/12/11/the_recession_is_over de97b0b9-c2eb-4411-a6d0-a4a6951f20da Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:44:12 GMT When the Framers of the Constitution determined that elected representatives should be allowed to serve consecutive terms in office, they couldn't have foreseen anything like the multi-year, multi-million dollar... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/11/19/consecutive_term_i_think_not! 59ebcfaa-2ff2-4825-8fcc-ca57118d7ca8 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:14:59 GMT Crowd psychology is interesting, especially when it comes to investors, who generally move in the opposite direction from the one in which they're being led. When an action is taken to try and change market behavior,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/10/22/could_you_get_trampeled b9c82e96-bc51-4be9-80df-d2d6e97cda1b Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:45:00 GMT I remember as a high school student, once in a while, actually more than once in a while, waiting until the night before an exam to begin studying. By that time, it was too late to read the book, so I used Cliff Notes http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/10/16/will_they_read_the_bill 3c415aeb-6918-49eb-b33b-a5aaac4cb5fb Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:17:33 GMT Like the icebergs that sunk the Titanic, hidden dangers lurk in the murky depths of the American economy. They are as difficult for our economists to see as they were for the captain of the Titanic. Our economy is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/10/13/icebergs_are_everywhere 62ff9b93-91bb-470b-92d4-5b6032310acb Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:35:00 GMT Applying for and obtaining a mortgage loan used to be a routine matter. Not any more. The politicians have chimed in and turned the process into something akin to the struggle between good and evil. Now you need a guide... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/10/08/navigating_through_the_mortgage_morass e8aa3bed-bf2f-4e7c-adef-049e7b7756fb Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:40:00 GMT When I was a young man graduating from college, more years ago than I choose to admit, I interviewed with various prospective employers. I remember the International Business Machine (IBM) recruiter telling me that the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/09/29/taking_time_to_get_it_right 6df3b314-fba1-4a40-9632-dc98ac1812ba Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:30:09 GMT Now that I have your attention.. In a normal economy, most people who sell their houses (with the exception of those relocating for lifestyle or career reasons) plan to move up to bigger, better, or more... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/09/21/from_out_of_the_wilderness_come 76a41fcb-51f0-4969-b3d2-7c64f7002153 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:05:00 GMT On May 11th of this year, I wrote a column "The Real Estate Market Has...", stating I believed that the bottom had been reached in some areas of the country for residential real estate and suggested that you begin... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/08/26/its_time_to_make_the_move f2db55c6-c6bf-4785-bb19-c850f1b5e37f Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:33:49 GMT Now that we have seen "amateur night at the Bijou," starring the President and the Congress, maybe we can realize that knowledge of a subject should be somewhat of a prerequisite to running anything: ice cream truck, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/08/21/if_you_dont_know_it,_dont_try_and_run_it 58f76a60-f22b-4d15-8cd8-351949d7bc1e Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:11:34 GMT An answer is what every question needs, a result is what every experiment needs. So why aren't we concerned with results? The only thing that seems to be interesting to the general public is a quick blush of results... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/08/12/are_we_afraid_of_results 89b8d339-2849-4a35-9aae-3f0e60300db1 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:09:35 GMT As strange as it might be, it has come to my attention that the government has, on occasion, over promised and under delivered. Freely translated: they overestimated results and underestimated costs. It's really a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/08/06/government_mistakes_are_our_problem 37a1d95d-8217-4dfe-ad1a-f619eaa6f33f Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:20:13 GMT I was struggling with the answer to the question of state unity, and the only clue I have that stopped me from saying "no" unequivocally is the fact that we can travel from state to state without a passport... for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/08/03/our_fifty_states_really_united c2d430a6-a362-4b8f-8ce7-b33a86d685f2 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:12:07 GMT This title might suggest this is a militaristic column or worse, as in terrorism of some sort. So let me put your mind at ease and confess this is only about the mortgage industry, which in reality makes the first two... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RogerSchlesinger/2009/07/24/trying_to_hit_a_moving_target 341884e3-6b97-4a97-87df-9f0f957b6ed8 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:18:50 GMT