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Commercial real estate

05 Sep 2010

The yield differential between US commercial real estate and Treasuries is the widest since the financial crisis...
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Your smile didn't matter

05 Sep 2010

If you worked on the line, we cared about your productivity, not your smile or approach to the work. You could walk in downcast, walk out defeated and get a raise if your productivity was good...
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How huge houses consume fortunes

05 Sep 2010

Cheap housing, like cheap oil, or cheap food, is good. Huge houses don't preserve fortunes, they consume them, writes John Dizard...
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Many bright spots forming on infrastructure horizon

05 Sep 2010

Infrastructure sales and investment are surprisingly buoyant in the post-financial crisis period...
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Sometimes, price is an attitude

04 Sep 2010

Passed a store the other day. The sign read 99 CENTS! And the subtitle was, "Everything $1 and up". The 99 cent store was never popular because there's some magical power about the pric...
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