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Based on today's Census Bureau report on April retail sales, consumer spending at " Food Services and Drinking Places " ...

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Dear Carpe Diem Regulars :  Over the next several days, there will be some major changes taking place for the Carpe Diem blog. After six ...

Click to enlarge. Today's " National Home Sales Snapshot " from DQ News is displayed above, which has been updated with...

From Thomas Sowell's column today (emphasis mine): The history of the 20th century is full of examples of countries that set out to r...

1. Markets in everything : WiFi enabled, multi-color, energy efficient LED light bulb that you control with your iPhone. 2. "Patchwri...

Some key reports today on architecture billings, existing home sales, and new residential construction provide additional evidence that a U....

1.  Wisconsin home sales increased 20.3% in August, median sales price by 2.9%. 2. Kalamazoo MI housing market shows highest sales volum...

From today’s report from the National Association of Home Builders : September 18, 2012 – Builder confidence in the market for newly b...

From Terry Anderson's editorial in today's WSJ " Environmental Protection Up in Smoke ":  Environmental laws since the 1...

From CNBC , based on tickets being sold in the secondary market on StubHub, Ticket Network, eBay, etc. and aggregated by TiqIQ .

A recent analysis by Trulia concluded that buying a home today is 45% cheaper on average compared to renting a comparable home, see CD pos...

DataQuick -- "An estimated 41,280 new and resale houses and condos sold in California last month, making it the strongest August sinc...

  In the above 1978 lecture at Kansas State University, Milton Friedman discusses free trade, and explains why trade protection and inte...

From the Bloomberg article "Why Is It So Hard to Become a Cosmetologist in America?" "The average cosmetologist in the U...

From Don Boudreaux's open letter to Mitt Romney : Your wish to “label China a currency manipulator” means that you seek a pretext to i...

"The American news media continues to report the body count in Mexico’s “War on Drugs” at more than 50,000 dead. But Molly Molloy , a ...

Here's another reason that the U.S. housing recovery is real and sustainable - buying a home is now 45% cheaper than renting, according ...

The chart above provides evidence of the significant recovery going on in the Minneapolis Area real estate market , based on new data for ...

Read this CD post from last Wednesday on North Dakota oil output in July, and then read this news report posted yesterday by TV station KT...

The Institute for Justice is reporting that a woman in Nebraska could face up to 20 years in prison for massaging horses without a license...

1. DQ News -- "Southern California home sales rose to the highest level for the month of August in six years, fueled by low mortgage ...

  The soon-to-be-released documentary "The House I Live In" is an inside look at America's longest war, The War on Drugs, fr...

QE Forever HT: Moe

1. "The number of improving housing markets across the country rose to 99 in September, according to the National Association of Home ...

The “Economic Miracle State” of North Dakota pumped another record amount of crude oil during the month of July at a rate of more than 67...

You can now hire somebody to take your online classes, with a 99% chance of getting an A:   " WeTakeYourClass.com is a site dedicate...

ABC News -- "Parents in New York are raising their eyebrows at the latest after-school activity offered for their children: unsupervi...

From the YourMechanic website : "Our mechanics come to you! Think of us as the AAA of car mechanics. We help you find the right m...

From the RidePal website : Recruit and retain top talent. Give your employees a commute experience they look forward to. Ridepal takes...

EIA's " Today in Energy " reports on how "Developments in drilling methods and technology are leading to efficienc...

Local reports are coming in for August home sales and so far they're all showing double-digit gains from last year, here's a sample:...

U.S. manufacturers had another solid quarter of profits from April to June, according to data released today by the Census Bureau .  The ...

Columnist Andy Heller attended a Broadway show recently for the first time in 20 years, and writes in the Sunday Flint Journal ( "If y...

1. Nashville Home sales Increase 27.3% in August, and in Denver by 18% . 2. 3D printed guitar . 3. Current 2012 Electoral Map Based on ...