Numerology Class

27% Drop

Number of previously-owned houses sold last month

Twice the drop that was expected

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1 out of 5

number of previously-owned home sales in July

that were Forced sales - that is Foreclosure sales

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12% Down

New Home Sales for the month of July

Lowest pace of sales since 1963

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7%

expected rise in Beef prices

caused by people not buying as much in the recession - and at $8 lb who can blame them!

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$38QUADrillion

lawsuit filed by Utah man

its a land dispute case .... don't think he will get it though

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$24Trillion

amount of currency in circulation around the world

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10 days

Traffic Jam in China

and its not done yet - on several roads leading into Beijing

Geez, and you thought OUR traffic was bad ... even L.A. at "rush hours" isn't this bad ...
yeah I know I wrote 'hours' ... have you ever seen the traffic in Los Angeles???

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5 years

legnth of time between special committee meetings in Bell, CA

but members were still paid for being on these committees, more than $1500 per month

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$25,000

average income in Bell, CA for residents

$800,000

base salary for City Manager of Bell, CA

(think this could be a repeated posting, but it links to the posting above)

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45 days

number of days in advance that soldiers are supposed to get their absentee ballots

this includes electronic voting as well
(more on this in another posting)

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51% Object to plan to build Mosque near "Ground Zero"

34% Should be allowed

15% No opinion/Don't know

Pew Research

Aug 19-22, 2010

1003 adults

MOE +/- 4%

(personally, my issue isn't the fact that they want to put a religious temple in - its that in order to do it, they want to tear down a 150 yr building with historical significance ... which isn't an option on this poll apparently)
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