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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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